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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. We had to reinvent how to engage, monitor, and treat” patients with new approaches both in and outside the acute care setting. What a difference 90 days makes.

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Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For

Healthcare IT Today

Several surveys about the online patient experience were recently released. It won’t surprise anyone who follows healthcare professionally—or who has used a healthcare portal—that patients are frustrated and disappointed. patients about their patient experience.

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Access to Care and Digital Health/Health IT – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

Rather, it is a convoluted assemblage of disconnected and decentralized sectors that struggle to provide a streamlined, coordinated, and connected care experience for all stakeholders. It sounds simple enough, but many health systems struggle to achieve this level of operational intelligence, hybrid care, and access.

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Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Health systems should also evaluate the security policies of third-party vendors, some of whom may have been unprepared for the rapid shift to virtual care; implement robust user authentication measures and device-security management; and instruct patients on how to properly configure and install RPM devices. ON THE RECORD.

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The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring

Healthcare IT Today

For example, a provider can use RPM to better manage the care of a patient with kidney issues or diabetes, receiving more regular updates on important activities or vital signs to diagnose and treat emergent or changing conditions much more quickly.

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Intermountain Healthcare: Optimizing the Patient Experience Through Telehealth Interoperability

American Well

Intermountain Healthcare, a not-for-profit integrated health system headquartered in Utah, has built a robust virtual health program that includes Connect Care , its direct-to-consumer telehealth service and Connect Care Pro , its acute care program.

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Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

Speakers also shared lessons learned in how to break down barriers for securing this information from patients. This included such ideas as putting questions into context and articulating why providers need to understand race data as part of the overall care coordination landscape.

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