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

Healthcare IT Today

The antidote to these trends is the automation of processes. 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.

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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.