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Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary care providers in New York City, one of the U.S. With patients afraid to seek care in person and social distancing necessitating as little face-to-face contact as possible, many clinicians pivoted to telehealth – some with more success than others. "Maybe the practices have to swallow that costs themselves.

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Virtual sitters at Lee Health guard against danger to patients, help trim costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"This was generally used for retired clinical nurses or others who had the time and desire to sit next to a patient," he continued. When that happened, we would generally have to re-assign an even more critical individual, such as a nurse or a patient care technician, to help protect that patient.

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The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers

Healthcare IT Today

Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance. One of the greatest burdens to providers is documentation. Electronic health records were introduced to make documentation easier and more accessible. If anything, the issue is getting worse.

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Amazon Care's health provider signaling potential expansion, says STAT

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The phone number listed on official Care Medical documents automatically redirects, as of March, to the customer service line for Amazon Care. Business Insider has also reported that Care Medical contracts exclusively with Amazon Care. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD.

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AWS announces healthcare workforce accelerator cohort

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He noted that many of the startups are helping providers "reduce individual workloads by removing friction in day-to-day processes, streamlining clinical workflows, reducing documentation burden, outsourcing basic tasks to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions and supporting well-being and flexible work arrangements."

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More than Productivity: Include User Experiences when Assessing the ROI of AI-Based Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). Healthcare has highly specialized requirements for AI and other technologies.

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Southcoast Health slashes CHF and COPD readmissions rates with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Patients seen this way showed a variety of symptoms and this method helped decide which cases may be more appropriate for an urgent care setting or perhaps even a referral back to primary care. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.