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When Social Determinants of Health Limit Virtual Care Access

GlobalMed

Home broadband use varies by age, race, income, and educational level with patients from ethnic minority or lower income groups more likely to rely on their phones for Internet service rather than broadband connectivity in the home. This center provides her primary care, dental services, pharmacy, and labs.

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

While these are two large factors behind the increased demand, other factors are driving the increase, including the technological advances that enable better remote care. The process begins when a patient is referred to a specialist home health provider by his or her primary care physician.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Equality Health.

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

Whether it is integrating Apple Watch data, shortening emergency department wait times or providing better concierge care, these interventions can be helpful, or even great. (We And many of us can’t get into our primary care doctors, either). We do need to automate data collection, who wants to sit in an ER?