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

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA. The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. The PERS market size presents a sizable and undefined caregiving variable. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health

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Are you ready to become the hospital of the future?

American Well

Not surprisingly, the hospital of the future will require technology solutions like telehealth to meet growing patient demands for remote access to health information and providers. Hospital IT: Driving change. In today’s hospital, IT teams are in charge of driving innovation and making the technology decisions.

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Are you ready to become the hospital of the future?

American Well

Not surprisingly, the hospital of the future will require technology solutions like telehealth to meet growing patient demands for remote access to health information and providers. Hospital IT: Driving change. In today’s hospital, IT teams are in charge of driving innovation and making the technology decisions.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus.

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Seeing Your Doctor from Your Couch

American Well

Medical Design Technology interviews Mike Baird, CEO of Avizia, a complete telehealth platform provider. 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. Sean Fenske.

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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. " Then there are lower readmission and infection rates.

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