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Vendor notebook: Virtual care options on Google Cloud, AR surgical imaging and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

New healthcare technology innovations developed outside the box offer clinicians more tools, including cloud-based telehealth, remote lab testing for infections and enhanced imaging for surgical precision. Payer and healthcare systems that are Google Cloud Partners can now purchase and deploy Pager's connected care system.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like Fisne at Geisinger, Hilburn of Grady Health System has had his hands full with telemedicine during the past year or so. Hilburn said one lesson that Grady has learned is that its telehealth capabilities required significant expansion in order to rise to meet the public health need. " Rapidly standing up a call center.

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Telemedicine found to be effective for diabetes management in KSA and UAE

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“This has been simpler with the introduction of new, easier-to-use self-monitoring tools.” During lockdown, not only did telemedicine play an important role in continued, connected care, it also proved to be a cost-effective and time-efficient alternative, the paper stated. ” THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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VA working with Apple to broaden telehealth access for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Evans, chief officer in the VA's Office Of Connected Care, spoke with Healthcare IT News earlier this year. million telehealth episodes of care, such as a video appointment or a store and forward telehealth exchange, to more than 900,000 veterans," he said. Dr. Neil C. "In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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Bipartisan House bill would enshrine telehealth rule changes, enable wider use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The legislation seeks to push forward with wider access to and use of telehealth – even beyond this public health emergency with its numerous waivers, allowances and temporary rule changes. "Telehealth services are allowing society to become safer, healthier, and more effective at delivering the care patients deserve.

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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. "Unfortunately, this progress is in jeopardy," they wrote.

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Latin America’s Virtual Care Revolution

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Ramón Figueroa Castellanos called the new solutions “a very important leap in quality, since they are the new strategies that allow us to have a more equitable, fairer and much more accessible system for public health.” Creating International Connected Care. Want to learn more about our connected care solutions?