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How Telehealth Can Improve Access to Specialty Healthcare

InTouch Health

Additionally, the patient’s primary care provider may have trouble sharing information with the specialty provider, which can delay access to care and worsen patient outcomes. Many primary care providers have trouble tracking whether their patients are able to actually visit the specialists they are referred to.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them.

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Secure asynchronous messaging: the future of patient portals?

Lloyd Price

Team communication: Asynchronous messaging can be used to facilitate communication among members of a healthcare team, such as nurses, physicians, and pharmacists. This can help ensure that everyone is on the same page regarding patient care and can improve the coordination of care.