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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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How Intermountain Healthcare gets top marks for virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These services initially used an internally developed telehealth platform with TV room kits and mobile carts as patient care connection points. Over time, it has become Intermountain's largest urgent care service and now is adding behavioral health and other care options. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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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. Moving ahead, Testa knows he and his team must make sure patients and clinicians must always be able to connect digitally.

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How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges with nurse staffing shortages posing one of the biggest threats to care delivery. workforce from 2020 to 2021 due to a perfect storm of issues ranging from burnout and job dissatisfaction to competing family obligations and COVID-related illness. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." " Creating the in-person experience virtually. The new importance of telemedicine.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Another system the vendor offers is Teleisolation.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null.