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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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Temple uses $1M of FCC telehealth funding for virtual care platform, tablets and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges with nurse staffing shortages posing one of the biggest threats to care delivery. More than 100,000 nurses exited the U.S. The American Nurses Association projects that the nursing shortage could reach up to 1.13 million additional nurses needed by 2028.

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

Healthcare IT Today

As Hartsfield says, “Patient engagement strategies have never been more critical.” Digital delivery of connected care allows services like Dario to provide a huge amount of data to the payers who fund their service. ” How does all this relate to revenue, the topic of this article?

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

An Annals of Medicine study noted that patients with frequently missed appointments tend to “experience poorer health outcomes.” As an industry, we need to continue to work toward a better, more connected care ecosystem that offers optimal outcomes both for today’s patients and for those of the future.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health. " "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Dialogue is an integrated virtual-care clinic that provides bilingual telehealth services 24/7 across Canada. Dialogue’s multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals consists of nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, care coordinators and allied health professionals who all work together to deliver complete patient care.