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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This may seem like an insignificant example.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

For example, artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve financial forecasting, risk management, and decision-making processes while automation can streamline routine operations and improve productivity to reduce costs. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies.

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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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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. " "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.

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Keith Algozzine, Founder and CEO of UCM Health

Digital Health Today

UCM Health is a platform that serves not only as a “digital front door” but offers 24/7 telehealth treat, triage, and navigation service to lower costs and improve outcomes and the patient experience. . I am an emergency medicine physician’s assistant and my co-founder is an emergency nurse paramedic.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had united, Voltron-style, to fight for lower healthcare costs and forge “a better patient experience” for their combined 1.2 For the most part, we’re still waiting.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The treatment algorithms are personalized for each patient based on machine learning and ensure the right drug dosages and treatments for the right patient at the right time. A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc.