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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reimagining everything for remote care. The entire foundation of healthcare is built on in-person care. The building blocks assume that patients and providers are on-site, together, at the same time. Everything needs to be reimagined for remote care, said Canino at Johns Hopkins Health Systems.

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The Advantages, Challenges, and Costs of Healthcare at Home Services

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While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. HaH is an innovative care model that provides hospital-level care in a patient’s home as a full substitute for acute hospital care.

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Telehealth, linked to an EHR, drastically reduces no-show rate at Garfield Health Center

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In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. “No dual documentation was required.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We knew we needed to create an environment of safety while still retaining control over our patients' recovery journey. "We wanted to gain insights into how patients were recovering at home, see feedback on their progress and outcomes, and enrich the patient experience from start to finish," he said.

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

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Gary Hamilton, CEO at InteliChart To make meaningful progress on health equity, hospitals and health systems will first need to identify existing barriers to care that impact their own patient populations. This can lead to higher levels of functional impairment, worsening comorbidities, and overall health decline.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The CAM Patch can serve as a remote patient monitoring system during the COVID-19 pandemic, the vendor said. Eko’s telehealth and remote patient monitoring platform powers virtual cardiac and pulmonary exams by facilitating stethoscope and ECG live streaming. It also provides medication adherence tools.

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Data’s Role in Health Equity: Digging into the Root of the Problem

Healthcare IT Today

This can be achieved using a data engineering framework that is flexible enough to handle structured, unstructured and semi-structured data-sets to create a Patient LHR (Longitudinal Healthcare Record) to get a 360-degree view of the patient’s health.