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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution. "In 2016, we began exploring various telehealth workflows to meet those needs but hit many billing-related roadblocks due to the restrictive New York State and federal regulations. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

However, some forms of technology – particularly those that support telehealth services – are in hot demand as they prove their worth during the national pandemic, say experts who assess information technology adoption by the nation's healthcare providers.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Hospital Care at Home progranm will use connected health and remote patient monitoring tools that will connect patients to the Orlando Health Patient Care Hub for 24/7 virtual care by nurses and providers, in addition to in-person nursing check-ins daily. 15 and 16 from noon-4 p.m.

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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"While we had invested in an app to deliver this information to patients in written form, most of the pre-surgical information was delivered verbally by doctors, nurses and staff, in addition to a paper packet," she continued. "The verbal repetition was incredibly time-consuming for our clinical staff.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." " Eric Jimenez, Artesia General Hospital. "We experienced first-hand that this was never about a pivot," he related.

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Oncology Patients experience a personalized journey with interventions and education for better care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Eighteen months ago, we introduced this telehealth type of application to our oncology patients. Nurses use the TapCloud Triage Dashboard to efficiently track, monitor and respond to patients requiring an intervention. Nurses can drill down on a specific patient to see how many days since check in, recent events (e.g.