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Telemedicine is a major driver in shifting the healthcare delivery model

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider.

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Employers Take on Health Activism, Embracing Behavioral Health, Virtual Care, AI, and Transparency

Health Populi

One-third of large employers will adopt new delivery and payment models like accountable care organizations and high-performing networks in 2019. More employers will also channel employees and dependents to Centers of Excellence for focused clinical areas like cancer treatment, cardiovascular care.

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Telehealth and the CHRONIC Act of 2017 (S. 870)

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

House of Representatives, Accountable Care Organizations (groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients) could have some flexibility within these restrictions. If the act passes the U.S.

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Building a virtual ICU depends on politicking and persuasion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The kind of goals all health systems are after in the era of accountable care. '" Once the battle of hearts and minds was one, there was still plenty of other preparation and groundwork to lay, of course – both technologically and procedurally. But it's not going to be because we didn't try.'"

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The confluence of value-based care and population health

Health Blawg

We are certainly hurtling along the value-based care trajectory, and may not have the opportunity to make more that just a few mid-course corrections. We are certainly hurtling along the value-based care trajectory, and may not have the opportunity to make more that just a few mid-course corrections.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One of the biggest storylines since the early days of the pandemic, of course, was telehealth – finally capitalizing on its potential as it was thrust into the spotlight as a necessary modality of care delivery. " Value-based care: New impetus for change. " Telehealth: Now what?

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