Remove Course Remove Hospital IT Remove Medicare Remove Telehealth
article thumbnail

Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth? Further, what should CIOs and other health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems be doing to address new telemedicine challenges? What does the end of the PHE mean for the future of telemedicine?

article thumbnail

Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA. The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. The solution, of course, relies on data sharing among the participating care providers. This is despite success at standardizing on single formats for electronic medical records.

Nursing 75
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. A visit to the hushed carrels and blinking monitors is a glimpse into a future in which hospital systems are paid more when their patients are healthy, not sick. Of course, a nurse in St.

Nursing 32
article thumbnail

150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

The hospital promotes employee development and education through free professional and general education courses as well as educational assistance benefits for BSN, MSN and MHA degrees. Employees also have the option of taking up to a 48-month leave of absence in order to pursue a full-time course of study. Pinehurst (N.C.)

article thumbnail

How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

Mend

Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. We believe arbitrary restrictions on telehealth must be permanently removed to make way for a modernized and more accessible healthcare system.”. But those calls were largely ignored.