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Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Otherwise telehealth won't work."

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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. Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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GlobalMed Celebrates 20 Years Offering Virtual Health Technologies

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February 15, 2022 – For 20 years, GlobalMed has been an international leader of virtual health with its technology platform of software and integrated telehealth stations and medical devices. The program allows organizations to adopt telehealth technologies and provide virtual care delivery services for a low monthly fee. “We

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Sound security practices key to fulfilling telehealth's promise, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than 70 percent of respondents polled by cybersecurity firm CynergisTek say they'll keep using telehealth services, even once the pandemic subsides. But they also say privacy and data security are big concerns – and that breaches involving virtual care technologies could cause them to stop using telehealth or switch physicians.

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Hold off telehealth rule changes, health tech industry urges Medical Board of Australia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Medical Software Industry Association has called on the Medical Board of Australia to think twice about imposing changes to telehealth rules, saying there could be "serious unintended" consequences. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Quality Care Patient Access Care

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FCC awards Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium $3.1M

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Electronic Caregiver debuts animated RPM tech; XRHealth, HTC unveil VR telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Electronic Caregiver, a digital health technology and services company, is debuting Addison the Virtual Caregiver at HIMSS22. The company labels Addison the next generation of remote patient monitoring technology that offers a solution to the caregiver shortage by providing healthcare management outside a doctor's four walls.