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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At the Connected Health Conference in Boston this past month, five longtime leaders in telehealth took the stage to discuss what's next for virtual care and remote monitoring. An ICU tower right next door which will take care of the sickest of the sick that can't possibly have home health care … But other than that?

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Keith Algozzine, Founder and CEO of UCM Health

Digital Health Today

During this year’s annual HLTH conference in Boston, I got to speak with Keith Algozzine, the founder and CEO of UCM Health. The ER is the worst place in the world from a consumer standpoint: you have to drive there, it’s around the four walls of a hospital, it’s a huge wait, and it’s often really expensive.

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A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 3: Being An Advocate

Society for Participatory Medicine

On occasion, it’s possible to request a meeting with the care team. Usually that will bring together some combination of doctors, nurse practitioners and others to meet with you and your family in the patient’s room or a conference room. Even in the best care settings, information continuity is a challenge. Speaking Up.

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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 going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Campbell County Health is a health system with 1,244 employees across its 90-bed acute care hospital, 160-bed skilled nursing facility, inpatient behavioral health unit, ASC, and 14 outpatient primary care and specialty clinics. Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). Pinehurst (N.C.) nThrive (Alpharetta, Ga.).