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Telehealth advocates ramp up pressure on elected officials

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Meanwhile, more than 125 healthcare organizations – including the ATA – sent a letter to congressional leadership on Friday asking Congress to reinstate telehealth flexibilities for patients for certain kinds of health plans. Signers also included the Connected Health Initiative, the Alliance for Connected Care, the U.S.

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RAND Report: FQHC Telehealth Implementation for Underserved Patients in Health Centers

Telebehavioral Health Institute

To support health centers in these efforts, the California Health Care Foundation established the Connected Care Accelerator (CCA) program, a quality improvement initiative launched in July 2020. Audio-only visits were the leading telehealth modality for primary care and behavioral health throughout the pandemic study period.

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How top health systems deliver high-quality care through telehealth

American Well

Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Leadership buy-in is critical to your telehealth program’s success. “I But it’s not just CEO buy-in that’s important; all leadership should be engaged in the program. Peter Rasmussen, MD , Medical Director, Distance Health, Cleveland Clinic.

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How top health systems deliver high-quality care through telehealth

American Well

Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Leadership buy-in is critical to your telehealth program’s success. “I But it’s not just CEO buy-in that’s important; all leadership should be engaged in the program. Peter Rasmussen, MD , Medical Director, Distance Health, Cleveland Clinic.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" The services deployed included video visits in specialty and primary care, remote monitoring of patients with chronic conditions that required medical oversight, and extending the reach of Grady Health's Mobile Integrated Health program with the addition of mobile telehealth kits. " Rapidly standing up a call center.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Partnering with senior leadership at the hospital, we were able to roll out systems that kept us on the cutting edge of technology." "COVID-19 testing, treatment, vaccination, along with continued access to primary care using telehealth and other digital technologies will continue," he said.

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

Whether it is integrating Apple Watch data, shortening emergency department wait times or providing better concierge care, these interventions can be helpful, or even great. (We And many of us can’t get into our primary care doctors, either). We do need to automate data collection, who wants to sit in an ER?