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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The sprawling provider network continues to seek new ways to deliver better care to its members where they live, in their communities and their homes. million veterans interacting with the site, including their personal health data, every month. Evans, VA Office Of Connected Care. At HIMSS20, Dr. Neil C.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. Wilder Paul is Executive Director of CommonWell Health Alliance, a not-for-profit trade association devoted to promoting health data interoperability nationwide.

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. " Even if the home can't be the hospital, community spaces and retail locations can fill in as connected care stations for underserved communities or patients [who] don't have an ideal setup at home.

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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

Maternal health data platform eLovu Health is integrating with Brightside Health and Ruth Health , providers of telemental health and virtual maternity care, respectively. West Virginia-based Vandalia Health is expanding its Oracle Health EHR implementation to all 12 hospitals in its network.

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Podcast: Telehealth for Parkinson’s care

Meaningful HIT News

We, of course, discussed cross-state licensure holding back wider use of remote care, a subject that is very much in the news right now. In fact, Health Data Management just published a story I wrote about, in part, the launch of the Alliance for Connected Care. Running time 17:54. Running time 17:54.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. But at least one type of value-based care is getting reimbursed: digital monitoring for behavioral care. Data ranges from patient engagement to changes to “time in range” for people with diabetes.

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Health IoT creates huge opportunities for public health and software companies

The Healthcare Guys

We believe that these are tremendous opportunities for public health and software companies like ours. It is why we are investing so much of our own resources to promote the open design, secure exchange, and value-added analysis of health data systems. In the case of health care they cost lives and money.