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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Virtual Care service is currently being provided through WACHS's command centre, outpatient services, metropolitan health services that offer remote patient access, and business meeting rooms. The task force, which is composed of senior leaders and subject matter experts, recently met for its first meeting.

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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

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" MEETING THE CHALLENGE TBRHSC automated the pre-op messaging for all surgeries across Northwestern Ontario surgical hospitals. "Now that we are live with the videos, we regularly meet and review analytics reports where we get to see the impact we are having on our patients.

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NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

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Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities. For the past year – in some places even longer – broadband offices have been holding regular meetings and town halls to assess the broadband needs of their communities.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

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"The main problems we wanted to address with our telehealth platform prior to COVID-19 surrounded our goals of expanding the reach of our clinical care services and allowing our clinicians to meet our patients at their convenience to avoid unnecessary long commutes to our city campus," he said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

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Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. WHY IT MATTERS. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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"2020 showed us that years of commitment to digital health and, specifically, the digital patient and clinician experience allowed NYU Langone to scale to meet the needs of our patients as well as clinicians," he said. " Eric Jimenez, Artesia General Hospital.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

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A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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