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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

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With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. "Upon completion of the visit, the encounter information is automatically sent to Memorial via Epic's Care Everywhere and Telehealth Anywhere functionality.

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At Baptist Health, Epic-linked asynchronous telehealth boosts provider and patient experience

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Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Telehealth is past the 'tipping point' – how's it doing with interoperability?

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As the American Telemedicine Association annual conference kicks off in New Orleans this week, the organization has published a white paper focused on the status of telehealth interoperability. " Interoperability is important for folks on both sides of the video screen, the ATA added. WHY IT MATTERS. but worldwide.

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Stanford researchers: Telemedicine optimization requires training, interoperability

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Blayney and Tina Hernandez-Boussard saw firsthand how the use of telehealth shot up during the COVID-19 pandemic. "These guidelines are a necessary step in a larger agenda that will help assess the ethics, regulation and effectiveness of telemedicine as a platform for healthcare delivery," they wrote in the JAMIA piece.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

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Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. Where does the healthcare industry go from here with telehealth?

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

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A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Centura Health blends RPM, carts and Epic EHR for expanded telehealth

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Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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