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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In this new normal, digitally frictionless scheduling of imaging studies by patients in the right location for them, at the right time in their care, with the ability to electronically share those images with those they wish, is but one example," he continued.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Looking forward, the company recently announced the launch of its own large-scale study that will combine passive, continuous heart rate readings through the devices’ PPG sensor and a proprietary algorithm to flag potential cases of atrial fibrillation for clinical follow up.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

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Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent. Years of telehealth advocacy have been devoted to removing these restrictions.