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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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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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Digital Health at CES 2024

Healthcare IT Today

With 130,000 people, there’s a lot of noise that doesn’t relate to healthcare IT, but over the years the digital health portion of CES has really grown. While I’m sure I missed plenty of the digital health happenings at CES, here’s a quick rundown of some of the things I found interesting.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

However, it has shined a glaring light on the contrast of patient populations with and without adequate access and digital health literacy to engage in this type of medical care. Equity is important to health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems because telehealth is not going away, she said.

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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.

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Women’s Health IT – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 125

Healthcare IT Today

For the 125th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are joined by special guest host, Brittany Quemby, Editor at Healthcare IT Today, to discuss women’s health IT! We begin our deep dive into this topic with telemedicine and other digital health apps.

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Digital health literacy as a social determinant of health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The release of final rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT regarding the 21st Century Cures Act have shined a renewed spotlight on patients' ability to take control of their own health data. Payment, too, will be a major driver of digital health equity.