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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

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As government agencies like the CMS and VA expanded access to telehealth towards the goal of extending care into rural areas, industry leaders like Care Innovations® announced a series of breakthroughs with exciting implications for the years to come. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security? As a patient moves through the continuum of care, we understand and value that our patients’ experiences are private. Individuals have a fundamental right to dictate who and when their health information is leveraged. No one is coming to help you.

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Future Health Index 2021 report found that two of the biggest barriers to the adoption of digital health technologies were difficulties with data management (44%) and lack of interoperability and data standards across technology platforms (37%).

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Addressing the Most Common Concerns about Remote Health Management

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At Care Innovations, our own experts have often presented remote health management as a series of pros and cons — a model that’s not always appropriate for every facility, or for all patient populations. All the same, many of the more common criticisms of remote care have already been addressed by leading providers.

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When eHealth goes viral: The strengths and weaknesses of health tech during COVID-19

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Telehealth services are rapidly becoming a major force in the effort to reduce healthcare-related COVID-19 transmissions, and ultimately protecting our health personnel. Crowdsourced” means that relevant health information is provided by a large number of people, primarily through the internet. More thought leadership.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Two years ago Virtua Health encountered the following three concerns, which prompted the launching of its Digital Transformation Office and fully remote virtual digital health practice. "The AI-powered platform engages patients, staff and clinicians through a chatbot designed with 100% remote care capabilities.

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How vulnerable is digital health amid the coronavirus crisis?

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Long before the global Coronavirus pandemic disrupted life as we know it, digital health was on the ascent, enabled by innovations in IoT-connected medical devices. In 2019, one in four physicians utilised remote care tools – nearly twice the share who were doing so in 2016, according to the American Medical Association.