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A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape

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Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Geisinger's journey to greatly expanded telehealth

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Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. Improving the quality of healthcare while lowering costs and increasing access in rural Pennsylvania counties is challenging, she said. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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St. Luke's University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care

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Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. By implementing the telehealth model, one of St. In the peak month of April 2020, St.

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

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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." " Fisne also said that patient satisfaction is up with the rise of telehealth.

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Health center's makeshift telehealth OK, but now is building something grand

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Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. So providers engaged with patients via mobile phones, on iPads and on laptop computers to address their healthcare issues. THE PROBLEM.

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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

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One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth. Melissa Baird, COO at Hims & Hers, leads a team of engineers that designed a telehealth experience that engages and connects patient care across its service lines, especially for stigmatized conditions. You are responsible for engineering at the company.

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CIOs tackle barriers to innovation, telehealth integration, analytics and more

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Darrow of the prominent Mount Sinai Health System said that he and his team learned since early 2020 that structural, non-technical barriers to innovation are a big reason why technical innovation is so challenging. "Telehealth is a great example," he said. Today we have sustained virtual visits at about 15-20% of total.