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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. Patients with cardiac arrhythmias can remain home while being continuously monitored.

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

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2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Get more details here. January 18, 2018.

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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

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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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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 previous telehealth technology was app-based and cumbersome to download and use for both clinicians and patients.

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

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In response to COVID-19, key health authorities, such as the CDC and the World Health Organization strongly lobby for ways to minimize physical contact between patients and healthcare providers, also known as “medical distancing”. elderly), who are also the most vulnerable, will benefit less by existing telehealth solutions.

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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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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.