Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

"COVID-19 testing, treatment, vaccination, along with continued access to primary care using telehealth and other digital technologies will continue," he said. "I do not think we can consider a post-COVID environment occurring until late 2021 at best.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. It’s amazing to think that PCPs are being notified about their patients so that they can ensure quality continuity of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At Medicity, we were serving 1,300 hospitals, facilitating lots of data exchange across hospitals, primary care and labs, but nothing we were doing was ever going to touch the home and community. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for establishing care-at-home models. Healthcare is hard.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Not having a focused Sickle Cell program coordinator led to a high hospital readmission rate, increased length of stay, fragmentation of medical and social services, suboptimal pain management, noncompliance by patients, emergency department misuse, inadequate follow-up with primary care and poor transition from pediatric to adult care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At the Connected Health Conference in Boston this past month, five longtime leaders in telehealth took the stage to discuss what's next for virtual care and remote monitoring. An ICU tower right next door which will take care of the sickest of the sick that can't possibly have home health care … But other than that?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2019

" 'It all gets moved into the home' More and more, said Berkowitz, "primary care doctors will be virtualists, who are going to take care of hyper-convenient care, very scalably, using virtual online technologies." It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent.

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