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

Health Populi

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News. What a difference 90 days makes. equipment and hardware). “We

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Application period for FCC Connected Care Pilot Program now open

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Connected Care Pilot Program, first formalized on March 31, 2020, is open to nonprofit and public eligible healthcare providers nationwide. Provider broadband data connections. Other connected care information services. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. WHY IT MATTERS.

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$100 Million FCC Connected Care Pilot Program Application Window Opens November 6th

Healthcare IT Today

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced that the Connected Care Pilot Program application window will open on November 6 at 12:00 p.m. ET and will remain open for 30 days through December 7, 2020, at 11:59 p.m.

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How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. million telehealth episodes of care – representing a 98% increase in telehealth episodes of care when compared to fiscal year 2020. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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FCC boosts rural healthcare funding by $198M, with eye toward telehealth expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Rural Health Care Program funding cap for funding year 2020 is $604.76 million in unused money from prior funding years "to the extent necessary to satisfy funding year 2020 demand for the Program," according to the agency. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. million, the most in its history.

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Intuitive software tools can help to connect care teams and patients. 2020 Oct; 28(5): 514–516. Virtual care: new models of caring for our patients and workforce. 2020; 8(7): 2135–2141. 2020 Sep 3: 1–6. COVID-19: Telehealth and Virtual Care Best Practices. Monagesh et al.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare executives up and down the line have learned many valuable lessons from their experiences this past year. Making digital connection the new normal. The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health.