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Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM.

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Why Telehealth is a Lifeline for Primary Care Physicians

GlobalMed

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. At the same time, both PCPs and the patients who need them face many challenges – and now both are finding that telemedicine may be the answer. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

Health Populi

We will continue to monitor all aspects of telehealth, from primary care and prevention to specialty care access, as well as to consumer/retail-driven demand for services like these for the GLP-1s, sexual dysfunction ( note Ro’s latest entry into the GLP-1 category expanding beyond its original lifestyle medicines roots).

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Five Reasons A Clinician Should Attend ATA’s Annual Conference

Healthcare IT Today

CME conferences are great. But often CME conferences have topics centered around traditional healthcare. The ATA (American Telemedicine Association) conference, along with offering some qualifying CME sessions, is made up of more broad topic discussions, meant to bring value to many different industry roles and professionals.

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Collision Conference: Encouraging Signs for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Collision #CollisionConf , one of the world’s largest tech conferences, wrapped up last week in Toronto, Canada. Technology + Primary Care. Marcotte and the team at Lotus are bringing a Direct Primary Care approach to Canada – creating primary care practices that emphasize patient AND physician experience.

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5 Trends from the American Telemedicine Association Conference 2019

Enzyme Health

Didn’t make it to the ATA conference this year? Last week, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual conference in New Orleans. Here are the biggest takeaways we learned at this year’s conference. An asynchronous medical assessment is a recent advancement to traditional telemedicine.

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Telemedicine saves the day for Avera Health in the COVID-19 era

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual care for non-COVID-19 patients. Third is virtual visits for non-COVID-19 patients to continue receiving routine care at home. "Telemedicine for routine patients has become the new standard in primary care and subspecialty clinics at Avera," Burchett explained. " Step-by-step for physicians.