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Home-Based Care Provides Powerful Example for Harnessing Technology Across the Care Continuum

Healthcare IT Today

Delivering Patient-Centered Care In addition to wanting to age in place, research shows older patients embrace virtual care – even more than younger age groups. of adults age 65 and older indicated using telemedicine in the prior 12 months compared to just 29% among patients ages 18-29.

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

Healthcare IT Today

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. County, the health center reasoned that rolling out telemedicine, and thereby reducing foot traffic to the clinics, was the only way that it could safely continue to treat patients with non-acute needs.

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Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

With the increase in digital health, remote care, and patient access, the need for a reliable platform to conduct everything has also increased. There is already so much to consider in terms of what works best for your organization, but then you need to rethink everything in terms of what is best for the patient.

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

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.