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Analytics and outreach key to telehealth success at Southwestern Health Resources

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And telehealth, which had not played a significant role in patient care previously, was the clear solution.” The team quickly focused established communications channels with community providers – physician pod meetings, newsletters and more – on educating them in the use and reimbursement process for telehealth visits.

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Automation In Rural Health: It Should No Longer Be An Afterthought

Healthcare IT Today

Rural hospitals often lag in integrating financial information and electronic health records (EHRs) because of staffing shortfalls and the perceived cost of doing so. Providers need a health IT platform that supports needed customizations and telehealth integrations. Technology will lessen the administrative burden.

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'Telehealth titans' discuss cost-savings of virtual care, describe the hospital of the future

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is. Just like the EHR is a tool. "It's a tool.