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Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Healthcare IT Today

We have more monitors at our fingertips than ever before that are all watching and alerting us of potential problems for the patients that need to be addressed. Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics. Of course, what does the ideal nurse call system look like?

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At Baptist Health, Epic-linked asynchronous telehealth boosts provider and patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. THE PROBLEM. " ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Zealous for Wellness: The Ongoing Quest for Standard Measures

Healthcare IT Today

As background, it’s worth stating that the insurance industry has settled on a ten-session course of therapy for most conditions (which of course was seen as ridiculously inadequate by the classical Freudian psychoanalytic movement, who could treat patients for years at a time).

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. But, of course, more immediate events took priority.)

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

In the report, Adam Pellegrini who leads Enterprise Virtual Care & Consumer Health Innovation at CVS Health asserts that, “We need to offer care in the ways that people are looking to receive it — through phones, through connected devices, through asynchronous conversations and, of course, through the telehealth visit.”

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

.” The more beautifully-designed and digital health devices in a consumer’s Internet of Healthy Things at home can connect to a health care data ecosystem, the more virtual care can be delivered in that safer, hygienic, lower-cost setting: the patient’s own residence. That’s a big if: in the U.S., This process can.