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

Healthcare IT Today

The right tool will enable physicians and providers to seamlessly chart clinical, administrative, and financial information and eliminate time-consuming manual processes and dual data entry to improve workflow and performance. Many rural and community practices and hospitals have wanted to evolve for some time but did not for various reasons.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Digital tools to combat COVID-19. More than 250,000 patients and visitors across hospital entrances and community practice clinics were screened for COVID-19 symptoms. Telemedicine availability has also rapidly expanded.

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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. "It's a tool.