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How U.S. healthcare leaders are shifting course to navigate a changed world

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

They also see the value that telehealth and AI can offer in terms of achieving the quadruple aim, specifically in improving the staff experience, the report said. Cementing the value of telehealth. To enable this, 89% of healthcare leaders were investing in telehealth. Understanding the pressures on their staff, U.S.

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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One such issue is interoperability. This was in addition to a massive acceleration of digital transformation, including a thousand-fold surge in telehealth visits from veterans from March through June 2020. "We all have been talking about interoperability, and that will have a profound impact."

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Why You Shouldn’t Aim for EHR Interoperability With Telemedicine Software

AMD Telemedicine

With telehealth taking an increasingly prominent place in the world of healthcare, organizations are trying to figure out the best way to make this feature work seamlessly with the rest of their internal systems. Research has shown that telemedicine interoperability often results in a fragmented, redundant, and costly mess.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.

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Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

News The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health Seven health system IT executives explain how they're strategizing to build on the post-. By Bill Siwicki | November 15, 2021.

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

Health Populi

Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Telehealth helped to get necessary therapy and counsel to many health citizens who never accessed such services before.

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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.)