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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

And it's a term that's fast-changing, as telemedicine suddenly finds itself becoming commonplace after years of work to sort out the regulatory, reimbursement and PR challenges that had kept it from representing the sizable proportion of care delivery that many think it should.