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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

THE LARGER TREND. 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.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" 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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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The final Zio report gives physicians a comprehensive look into their patient’s heart rhythm data including: daily and total atrial fibrillation burden, daily and total ectopy burden, symptom/rhythm correlation, most relevant heart rhythm strips, heart rate trends, preliminary interpretation and key findings, and PVC burden and morphologies.

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A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. Mercy Virtual is arguably the world’s most advanced example of something gaining momentum in the health care world: A virtual hospital, where specialists remotely care for patients at a distance.

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