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Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. They include a primary care access program that facilitates consults for primary care physicians; a school-based telehealth access program for direct intervention for students; and more.

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Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It often is challenging to organize a meeting date and time with family members and a care team. Telehealth has been an elegant solution to this and has allowed staff to hold family meetings where care providers can show their face via video and provide time to answer questions, she said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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MaineGeneral hits congestive heart failure readmission rate of 0% using RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Remote patient monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation, symptoms and medication adherence in real time at home with a dedicated registered nurse who actively outreaches to patients as needed. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel.

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How one grant can enhance care delivery and health education across the board

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These projects overall allowed the facility to use technology in innovative ways to improve the safety and efficiency of care provided throughout the pandemic and beyond. The projects also allowed the hospital to use its staffing resources in new ways to meet the health and wellness needs of the community.

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Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. Staff collaborated with primary care partners to train as many as possible on the integration of telemedicine into their workplaces.

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Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

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As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.