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How telemedicine can help everyone have a primary care physician

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The National Academy of Medicine recently released a report urging everyone to have a primary care physician. The report went on to recommend that telehealth could have a role to play in this expansion of primary care. How can virtual care enable this?

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Teladoc eyes hospital growth, says primary care is 'just the beginning'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an earnings report released this week from Teladoc Health, the telehealth giant reported 81% year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter to $522 million. The company also pointed to what it called "significant new agreements" with CVS Health and Centene to provide its primary care offering, Primary360.

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How telehealth is starting to reshape primary care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At Columbia, South Carolina-based Prisma Health, "we’re on a journey pursuing aspects of digital health," said Dr. Mark Wess, the health system's vice president and chief health information executive. "The asynchronous virtual visit for primary care is one of those."

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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. How can increased telehealth services address and minimize this gap?

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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Toward new telehealth strategies at the HIMSS24 Virtual Care Forum

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As healthcare organizations underwent a significant shift towards virtual care delivery during the pandemic, the need for seamless integration into the digital health ecosystem came to the fore.

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Telehealth may help reduce medicine's carbon footprint

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. healthcare industry increased by 6 percent. WHY IT MATTERS.