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Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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Disruption Is Healthcare’s New Normal

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: So exactly 20 years after Christensen wrote The Innovator’s Dilemma, he gave a seminar on how disruptive innovation can finally revolutionize healthcare. Making those connections via telehealth and virtual health technology, from a pure technical standpoint, is do-able today.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

UCLA Health is an academic medical center with four hospitals, anchored by the 520-bed Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, which has 1,500 full-time physicians and more than 2,500 support staff members. UCLA Health earned the 2017 World at Work Seal of Distinction and offers employees on-site child care centers to boost work-life balance.