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How Employer Health Plans Can Utilize Telehealth as a Value-Added Service

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Much has been written about the benefits of telehealth services like remote care within the healthcare system. Time and again, remote patient management has been shown to improve patient satisfaction and lower operational costs , as perhaps best demonstrated by the success of the Mississippi Diabetes Health Network.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. This is increasingly likely as a form of 24x7 remote care. or Addison Care from Electronic Caregiver. Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA. In the meantime… Enter the AI-enabled caregiver.

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A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. Mercy Virtual is arguably the world’s most advanced example of something gaining momentum in the health care world: A virtual hospital, where specialists remotely care for patients at a distance.

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