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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

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Executives also should ensure that they're able to handle shifting venues for some staff members, who may be working from home or at remote care delivery sites. Capabilities such as virtual private networks should be strengthened to ensure they're up to handling the load.

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$15M Singapore-London partnership to help stem APAC's growing healthcare cybersecurity woes

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While this growing connectivity does enable better patient monitoring within and beyond the hospital, it also raises cybersecurity risks, compromising patients' personal and medical data and disrupting treatment protocols and hospital operations.

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How Employer Health Plans Can Utilize Telehealth as a Value-Added Service

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Much has been written about the benefits of telehealth services like remote care within the healthcare system. Time and again, remote patient management has been shown to improve patient satisfaction and lower operational costs , as perhaps best demonstrated by the success of the Mississippi Diabetes Health Network.

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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

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The good news is that more and more patients are accepting and trusting of remote care technology. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, agreed, predicting a new era of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. THE LARGER TREND.

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

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" The platform alerts the patient's care team when needed, prompting clinicians to check in with the patient about mobility issues, pain management or other concerns. As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital.

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

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This is increasingly likely as a form of 24x7 remote care. or Addison Care from Electronic Caregiver. Or oversight of a care recipient could depend on using one of multiple sensor-based offerings from firms like Medical Guardian or SafelyYou. In the meantime… Enter the AI-enabled caregiver.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

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During the COVID-19 epidemic where elder patients are at the highest risk and where hospitals are at overcapacity due to COVID-19, SafeBeing helps keep patients safer at home or in elder care facilities, and out of hospitals. Vivify Pathways +Home is a system for remote care for home health. Spry Health.