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Building a virtual ICU depends on politicking and persuasion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Earlier, more manageable successes occurred in areas such as virtual urgent care and tele-psychiatry, she said. The kind of goals all health systems are after in the era of accountable care. We weren't really an outsourcing kind of shop, and it was just too expensive to jump into the world of virtual ICU.

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Why It's Time to Embrace Telemedicine

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I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world. What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new!