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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Overnight, telemedicine became a necessity for providers to deliver clinical care during COVID-19. With telemedicine, healthcare providers could establish connections with a diverse array of patients from various economic backgrounds, age groups and locations. This allowed for triage and treatment of acute and chronic issues.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

One example of leveraging AI as a tool to integrate new information sources could be by integrating natural language processing to both recognize audio, visual, and written communications and provide additional context or patient information from their EHR in real-time. This includes mediums like video, infographics, and even entertainment.

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How one mental health provider is using its own telehealth spinoff to boost virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The plan included an expansion of the current provider base and the implementation of a telehealth platform that would allow access to psychiatric care from anywhere in the country.” We designated each of these rooms as a ‘resource’ in the EHR that was directly linked to the scheduled service. ” PROPOSAL.

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients. We then made the business case to pilot switching existing services over to Zoom, including all primary care practices. It has now been one year since primary care switched to Zoom.

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For Ryan Health, telehealth seeds planted during the pandemic have flourished

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians. We utilized IMs and chat groups to give each testing team their own space for communicating. But this group was much smaller than any other go-lives we had done.

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Fred Trotter on Data Journalism and Cybersecurity — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

When a healthcare provider or payor or other party engages Fred and his team, it’s often someone with an innovation to bring to the marketplace who doesn’t necessarily know the best place to start, which hospital CEO to talk to, which physician groups, in which state. Now EHRs — and PHRs — are more accessible.

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