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Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In addition to providing specialty and primary care at destination medical campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona, the Mayo Clinic Health System services more than 50 communities in the Midwest. Many patients from the community practice might travel to Rochester for a specialty procedure.

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Analytics and outreach key to telehealth success at Southwestern Health Resources

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. To read this special report, click here. ” RESULTS.

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The Power of Words in Healthcare: A Patient-Friendly Lexicon. Top 10 List #WordsDoMatter Project

Society for Participatory Medicine

In a meeting of the minds, a patient advocate said (and I paraphrase here but this led to a roar of laughter and hopefully won’t offend anyone), “We would never use the word co-create with our patients. community practices). “I

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Geisinger's digital strategy to combat COVID-19 and accelerate enterprise transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To meet this need, a digital screening method, along with an administrative dashboard, was created to replace the ad hoc paper process. More than 250,000 patients and visitors across hospital entrances and community practice clinics were screened for COVID-19 symptoms.