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RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

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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

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“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. It sampled a variety of different services and ultimately selected Zoom Healthcare as its video visit software.

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How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

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

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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.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." Moving ahead, Testa knows he and his team must make sure patients and clinicians must always be able to connect digitally.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

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Eko’s telehealth and remote patient monitoring platform powers virtual cardiac and pulmonary exams by facilitating stethoscope and ECG live streaming. The platform has embedded video conferencing, or works alongside the video conferencing platform a health system has in place. It also provides medication adherence tools.