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Epic launches new telehealth service with Twilio

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Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS. The FCC recently doled out $3.7

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Telehealth needs medical interpreters, broadband expansion to reach underserved

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Although telehealth can be used to address that gap, write experts from the University of California, Los Angeles in a new report, policymakers must consider the ways in which vulnerable people are left behind by technological advances. Seven million Californians live in a region with a shortage of physicians.

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FCC awards Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium $3.1M

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The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. The consortium is made up of 35 federally qualified health centers. "Many of us already knew about the health inequities.

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Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care

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The research team from the University of Pennsylvania health system sought to compare the demographic characteristics of patients who completed a telemedicine encounter (either via phone or video) with those who were scheduled for one, but did not complete it. Otherwise telehealth won't work." " ON THE RECORD.

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Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories

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News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

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Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. We need to reframe our collective mindset around preventive care.

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NIH seeks proposals for advanced mobile hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Once they are created, the intent is for health systems to test them across the country to evaluate clinical efficacy and financial sustainability. "Telehealth revolutionized access to primary care and mental health services," Ku noted. "PARADIGM will do the same for advanced hospital-level care."