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RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

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MaineHealth turned a COVID-19 grant into a permanent telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe. "In the outpatient setting, there was initiation and wide deployment of Zoom service access for direct patient care.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. HCA was in the news for other reasons, too – hackers got their hands on HCA patient data and put it up for sale in an online forum. Patient experience vendor Vital surpassed 1 million users across more than 100 hospital clients.

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The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring

Healthcare IT Today

For example, a provider can use RPM to better manage the care of a patient with kidney issues or diabetes, receiving more regular updates on important activities or vital signs to diagnose and treat emergent or changing conditions much more quickly.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Amwell offers a suite of APIs, web services and SDKs to seamlessly embed telehealth into an organization’s existing digital assets, such as Cerner, Epic and other EHRs, in order to enable providers to work directly in the EHR for a streamlined experience. Equality Health.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"COVID-19 testing, treatment, vaccination, along with continued access to primary care using telehealth and other digital technologies will continue," he said. "In addition to the mass move to remote, and significant COVID-19 surge, our system was approximately halfway through a move to a single EHR platform.