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Henry Ford Health System gets ROI from employer-based telemedicine clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System and General Motors partnered to develop a narrow-network insurance product for GM employees called GM Connect Care. Through this product, HFHS aimed to offer innovative care delivery options that would be convenient and cost-effective for GM's members. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE.

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MedStar Health uses $2M AHRQ research grant to enhance telehealth

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COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. This grant comes as we near the conclusion this month of our first two-year, $1 million award studying how telehealth transformation impacted primary care access. million telehealth encounters.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

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If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit). As such, JLL sees telehealth as an avenue to increase patient access and drive more overall health care visits — augmenting the physical office, not replacing it. adults in the first half of January 2022 for this study.

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Mary Washington Healthcare Partners with Caregility to Pioneer Inpatient Virtual Engagement and Virtual Nursing Program

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The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. EATONTOWN, N.J., & FREDERICKSBURG, Va.–(BUSINESS Follow Caregility on LinkedIn and Twitter at @caregility.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT. The new importance of telemedicine. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger. "We went ahead.

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Our Homes as HealthQuarters – Finding Health and Well-Being at CES 2023

Health Populi

Withings expanded remote patient monitoring earlier in 2022, and began to collaborate on clinical trial data connections between consumers and researchers. Some big retail health news in 2022 was the FDA’s finally enabling hearing aids to be sold direct-to-consumer — more on that important development here.

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Policymakers: Broadband Funding Key to Bringing Telehealth Access to Rural Areas

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To “help address a need for reliable broadband access in rural Ohio and provide access to digital advances in agriculture, telemedicine, and education ” ( via the AP ). broadband connectivity by 2022 — is offering that assistance. Supporting ‘the Deployment of Broadband’ to Health Facilities.