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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. It’s amazing to think that PCPs are being notified about their patients so that they can ensure quality continuity of care. It’s basically HIPAA secure email for doctors.

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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. " Artesia General's IT team includes clinical professionals with many levels of education, from a master of science nurse to medical assistants.

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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News sat down with Shah to discuss health IT's role in aging in place. Please describe the experience you had with caring for your aging father, and what you learned about information not being shared in a meaningful way. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for establishing care-at-home models.

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Keith Algozzine, Founder and CEO of UCM Health

Digital Health Today

The ER is the worst place in the world from a consumer standpoint: you have to drive there, it’s around the four walls of a hospital, it’s a huge wait, and it’s often really expensive. Yet people continue to flock to it, and it is because of the care that they receive there. That’s really the solution.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). For two consecutive years, the health system was named among the Best Places to Work in Illinois.