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

Healthcare IT Today

This action could pay dividends for rural providers and set them up for success in the increasingly digital healthcare landscape and as the industry embraces new payment and care delivery models. Many rural and community practices and hospitals have wanted to evolve for some time but did not for various reasons.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As Schoenberg sees it, healthcare is an industry that, "for many, many decades has been perceived as something that is brick and mortar based – you have to go to the healthcare when you need it." Or maybe the answer is what William Gibson told us: It's already here, it's just unequally distributed right now."