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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

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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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"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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How Empathy, Education, Communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

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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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Keith Algozzine, Founder and CEO of UCM Health

Digital Health Today

The ER is the worst place in the world from a consumer standpoint: you have to drive there, it’s around the four walls of a hospital, it’s a huge wait, and it’s often really expensive. Yet people continue to flock to it, and it is because of the care that they receive there. That’s really the solution.

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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 3: Being An Advocate

Society for Participatory Medicine

The primary care team felt getting a feeding tube into her immediately was important to get her the nutrition needed to maintain her strength prior to a transplant. Even in the best care settings, information continuity is a challenge. For example, at one point my mom could not eat regular food because of aspiration risk.

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