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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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Do Your Clinicians Suffer Digital Health Fatigue? Allina Health has the Answer.

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Kate Klaphake, Product Manager, Connected Care, Allina Health At Allina Health , we understood the pressing need to modernize our patient education initiatives throughout our 60+ primary care clinics in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Nurses benefit as well.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people).

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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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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health. FYIm Accenture defines virtual services as video or voice transmitted by a provider either synchronously (in real-time) or asynchronously.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It describes the value of a facilitated, mobile device-integrated telehealth program that combines in-home paramedic visits with video consults with emergency physicians. However, the promise of telehealth has not been fully realized, particularly in populations with the greatest health inequities.