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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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HIMSSCast: Will the COVID-19 telehealth boom last?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Senior Editor Kat Jercich join host Jonah Comstock to recap what went down at the American Telemedicine Association's virtual conference last week. Check out our first two editorial webinars here and here. This episode is brought to you by AmWell.

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COVID-19: Acknowledging the need to adopt digital health in New Zealand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary care a week before the lockdown was told that they would have to move 90% of their interactions to virtual interactions and hospitals were told that they were to move 50% of their face to face interactions to non-contact interactions,” said Dr Davis. ON THE RECORD.

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Nursing community collaboration on the European COVID-19 front-lines

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. " Listen to the full webinar here.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The health system established a virtual urgent care model enabling patients across Virginia to receive care from its emergency medicine providers. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Pre-COVID-19 programs focused on specialty care access.

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"The sustainable advancement of telehealth is one that removes inequalities in healthcare"

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patient care is not about separate primary care, secondary care, hospital care. Telehealth can contribute to making data accessible to different care team members," concluded Helena Dominguez.

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Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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