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Optum Virtual Care said to be closing down

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million in 2019. It was a 2,500% year-over-year increase, Kristi Henderson, a former Optum senior vice president for digital transformation and CEO of Optum Virtual Care, who is now chief executive officer of Confluent Health, has said. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Telehealth may help reduce medicine's carbon footprint

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They calculated the average distance between patients' home addresses and their assigned primary care clinics, and used Oregon Department of Transportation data about how individuals run errands to estimate what percentage of in-person trips were taken by car. per year through 2019 – but declined by 46.2%

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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups

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However, the promise of telehealth has not been fully realized, particularly in populations with the greatest health inequities. In many cases, the same factors that lead to poor health and poor access to care contribute to low use of digital health services.

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Tasmania transforming outpatient services with online booking, eReferral system

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The release of the outpatient service transformation strategy follows the launch of the Tasmanian government’s Digital Health Transformation Program 2022-2023 earlier this year with help from consulting firm KPMG. Meanwhile, since 2019, the Tasmanian Department of Health and ??Primary

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Portugal showcases national telehealth plan with patients at the center

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Portugal is making big leaps in telehealth development with the newly introduced National Strategic Telehealth Plan (PENTS), the first document in the National Health System in Portugal and one of the first of its kind in the world. The education of healthcare professionals must include digital health.

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Baptist Health uses $873K grant to build out RPM capabilities and expand telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"For far too long, patients needed to follow the hospital's rules to seek care – must drive in, wait in a room, etc.," " said Nick Sarantis, system director of digital health at Baptist Health. There are numerous vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

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This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News.