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How RTM is a potential game-changer for improving outcomes

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RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night. Given that nearly half of adults in the U.S. healthcare system.

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How Telehealth Expands Cancer Care Access

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Yet the American Society of Clinical Oncology has projected a significant shortage of oncologists in the United States by 2025. And for rural patients needing cancer care, access to an oncologist is limited with 19% of the U.S. Telemedicine can provide cancer care in several additional ways: Patient Monitoring. Mental Health.

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79 Percent of Doctors Are Burned Out. Can Virtual Care Delivery Help?

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faces by 2025. There’s also provider mental health to consider. In an era focused on patient-centered language and whole-person care, provider wellness isn’t quite as vocal a dialogue. While approaches to the measure vary, one solution hits the trifecta of flexibility, wellness and workflow optimization: virtual health.