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Georgia Department of Public Health: Keeping Doctors and Patients Connected

CiscoHealth

Follow along with our new blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll addresses healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . In just three months, DPH onboarded 1,200 telehealth providers to the Webex platform.

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The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The previously unbreakable "Iron Triangle of Healthcare" where the constraints are healthcare systems' top priorities – Cost, Quality and Access – can now be broken with the advent of digital innovations that increase healthcare access and quality without increasing cost or even lowering cost.

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These are the compliance issues providers should be preparing for, post-PHE

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Here's what she had to say.

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Why Temporary Telehealth Policies Should Be Made Permanent

SteadyMD

As hospitals and doctors’ offices continue to be overburdened by staff shortages and patient overload, telehealth offerings keep pace in providing a wide-range of patient care access, overcoming racial inequality, transportation barriers from rural communities, and treating chronic medical conditions.

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How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

The first table arrays the growing range of digital health applications that consumers currently use. consumers have used telehealth, one in five for at least a year. The post How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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What priorities in healthcare in 2023 and what is the tech that is addressing these areas?

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

To achieve this, the government seeks to utilise digital tech to address specific deficits caused by legacy systems in key areas of healthcare, including urgent and emergency care, primary care, diagnostics, use of resources, workforce, access to care problems and more.

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Innovation, Local Persistence

Society for Participatory Medicine

In this episode, I will muse about healthcare innovation, while trying to stay positive. Kirsten Meisinger , Regional Medical Director and Director, Provider Engagement, at the Cambridge Health Alliance , told the story of Co-Designing Telehealth with Patients.