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AWS announces healthcare workforce accelerator cohort

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The companies selected for the newest AWS Healthcare Accelerator will focus on three critical needs in the healthcare space: retention, deployment and training, says Dr. Rowland Illing, chief medical officer and director of International Public Sector Health & the Global Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups team at AWS.

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How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

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Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. "This was accomplished over several weeks early in the pandemic and without that, VA care teams may not have been able to maximize video use during this period of time." Twitter: @kjercich.

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United Methodist Communities has early successes with telehealth and RPM

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” The other challenge United Methodist faced was facilitating specialty and primary care physician visits for residents. The lockdown and quarantine restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic put a significant burden on residents who required routine specialty and primary care. ” MARKETPLACE.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

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Within that training, staff members found that they needed to give their patients peace of mind as well as comfort. "As for staff education, training the staff in multi-departmental transitions was necessary for our patient-centered medical home status," said Jared M. Williams, CFO and senior vice president at AccessHealth.

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UVA Health System expands telehealth offerings

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Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, as Medicare now covers a broad range of virtual care models,” Rehuban continued.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." Our department also had to train additional providers to use the digital exam technology."

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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The digital transformation in healthcare was elevated to a new level in 2020 as the industry had to rapidly roll out digital technologies like telehealth and help move the workforce to remote work, said Jimenez of Artesia General Hospital. "There are miles between training and mastery. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.