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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

How can telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies help support chronic and acute care anywhere? With the right tools, extending care outside the hospital is not only feasible, but in many cases preferred. Providers need to rely on a longitudinal health record to activate the right care anytime and anywhere.

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Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Rural Health Information Hub breaks down various definitions of frontier designations, but a common one is six or fewer people per square mile. All but one of One Health's clinic locations serve communities that meet the frontier definition.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtua Health's DTO formed an advisory committee, comprising medical professionals, legal, IT and other healthcare department representatives to select the right digital technologies and to safeguard sharing of health information.

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Telehealth and Cybersecurity: Is Your Crisis Solution Putting You at Risk?

GlobalMed

In the last 20 years, telemedicine has radically cut healthcare costs and brought life-saving care into rural and underserved areas ; during the same period, cybercrime has boomed, with attackers repeatedly targeting healthcare organizations’ rich stores of valuable data. That prediction came true, so here’s another one.