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Telemedicine, enabled with responsible AI, can improve the patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? While the concept of the digital front door has been a popular topic in healthcare for some time, telemedicine has the potential to expand its impact beyond simply acquiring new patients or providing a digital entry point for care.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. Welcome to Telehealth Awareness Week , a campaign mounted by the ATA to remind us that #TelehealthIsHealth. 34% used telehealth for preventive care.

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More hybrid virtual care and asynchronous telemedicine on the way for 2024

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Now that telemedicine is a mainstream method for healthcare delivery, C-suite executives and health IT leaders at provider organizations must keep a sharp eye on trends in virtual care. Telemedicine is too important now to take for granted. What is one of the most important telemedicine predictions you have for 2024?

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TeleHealth 1.0 is dead. Long live TeleHealth 2.0

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: TeleHealth 1.0 is Generalist TeleHealth , TeleHealth 2.0 is Specialist TeleHealth. The focus is shifting towards TeleHealth that offers a more specialised and tailored approach to patient care. There's been a lot of talk about the decline of TeleHealth recently. Telehealth 2.0

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Health Populi

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Adoption of digital tools has grown across physicians of all ages, specialty, and gender across all technologies studied.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. Beazley conducted a survey among 376 digital health and wellness practitioners and divined four key themes from the research on risk, growth, insurance, and understanding.