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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution. "In 2016, we began exploring various telehealth workflows to meet those needs but hit many billing-related roadblocks due to the restrictive New York State and federal regulations. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More and more patients are able to take advantage of remote consults and other virtual care options as health systems have begun pursuing telehealth programs in earnest, new HIMSS Media research shows. " Of the 125 respondents asked about the telehealth projects underway at the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. "NYU Langone also was able to transform conference rooms and offices into ICU treatment facilities for COVID-19 patients," Testa noted. THE PROBLEM.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. But it’s worth noting that perhaps the most important one is the proposed 3.4%

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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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'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.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

These exceptional benefits landed the hospital on Best Companies AZ ‘s 100 Best Arizona Companies list for healthcare, and Phoenix Business Journal gave the hospital its HealthCare Leadership Award in 2017. The company offers a competitive benefits package including life insurance and telehealth visits. Pinehurst (N.C.)