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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. 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. "It's a tool. Just like the EHR is a tool.