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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City. The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

This final rule does not apply to healthcare providers but instead is directed at health information networks and health information exchanges, as well as developers of certified health IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Hospitals Switching IT Plans Rapidly As COVID-19 Impact Grows

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As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, hospitals are struggling valiantly to keep up with the influx of infected patients. Hospital IT departments, meanwhile, are undergoing stresses of their own as they work to support the rapidly escalating needs of clinicians.

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Automation In Rural Health: It Should No Longer Be An Afterthought

Healthcare IT Today

Rural hospitals often lag in integrating financial information and electronic health records (EHRs) because of staffing shortfalls and the perceived cost of doing so. Providers need a health IT platform that supports needed customizations and telehealth integrations.

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus.