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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One in which "primary care doctors will be virtualists, who are going to take care of hyper-convenient care, very scalably, using virtual online technologies," as Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, chief medical officer at MDLIVE and a longtime physician IT leader at Northwestern, explained.

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'Telehealth titans' discuss cost-savings of virtual care, describe the hospital of the future

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is.