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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The most impacted are in the area of clinical informatics, such as chief medical information officers and chief nursing information officers – they are being overwhelmed with the need to take care of the present need."

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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

Doctors get notified of important things they can address with the patient while they’re present with the patient. Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Sounds great doesn’t it? It’s basically HIPAA secure email for doctors.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The platform also captures patient input and makes real-time adjustments to care paths as necessary, such as changing the type of exercise video presented based on patient feedback regarding the difficulty level of the last video. We've hired more nurse navigators to enable the greater volume.

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Ping An Good Doctor launches One Minute Clinics offering preliminary diagnosis by cloud computing Doctors

Lloyd Price

" Presently, "One-minute Clinics" cover more than 100 commonly seen drugs. Presently, Ping An Good Doctor has already hired a large volume of highly qualified physicians from the top three hospitals. At the same time, it gives the patient more humane care. Its own physician team exceeds 1000 persons.

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Seeing Your Doctor from Your Couch

American Well

When we started Avizia, we saw multiple vendors in the marketplace that were creating parts to a solution and they would throw those parts over the fence to the hospital IT department and expect them to put it together. Fenske: When I was introduced to this technology, it was presented as a telehealth solution for stroke.

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Revolutionizing Postoperative Care at Home with Remote Patient Monitoring

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

In addition, RPM enables patients to communicate with their healthcare providers and caregivers, even when they are not physically present. For example, they can coordinate home health services, such as physical therapy and nursing care, and help patients make appointments for follow-up visits with their doctor.

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

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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