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Telehealth, properly integrated with EHRs, can boost cancer care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News spoke with Ford to discuss what it is about cancer care that lends itself well to telemedicine, how integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record helps the whole virtual oncology effort, and much more. What is it about oncology that makes it a good fit for telemedicine?

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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Johns Hopkins develops Epic-embedded tool to better support telehealth patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When telemedicine appointments skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Johns Hopkins team struggled to support patients who needed extra assistance. In response, the Johns Hopkins team developed what they called an automated "video visit technical risk score" tool in their Epic EHR. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe. The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH.

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American Well to preview TV-based telemedicine for the home at HIMSS20

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At HIMSS20, prominent telemedicine technology vendor American Well will preview its new home TV system, dubbed CarePort, which will be commercially available at a date yet to be announced. An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS20 global conference in Orlando.

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Sun River Health shifts 67% of its visits to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Bonus Features – October 2, 2022 – Tech vendors commit to standardizing SDoH data at White House event, 1 in 3 patients using telehealth to manage a chronic condition, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Coalition members include EHR heavy hitters like Epic, Oracle Cerner, and MEDITECH, along with social care companies such as FindHelp, UniteUs, Wellsky, and XanthosHealth. Consultancy and Epic implementation partner Brightwork Health IT unveiled its SPARC Academy to provide asynchronous training on EHR software.

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