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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" That could impact the course of future implementations, because "those folks are being diverted from longer term strategies," he added. "There is definitely distraction that will lead to (future) delays."

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Secure Your Hospital’s Future: The Critical Need for Robust Telemedicine Security

Healthcare IT Today

As inpatient telemedicine experiences rapid growth within hospitals, it presents unique challenges to Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs), particularly regarding potential security risks associated with medical devices and other hardware.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. Lindsey Klein, Chief Strategy Officer at QGenda Anything related to the non-physician/provider workforce should be trending in health IT. Leaders need to move beyond offering work stress-related coping strategies.

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Imperative Care Announces Three Senior Leadership Appointments for Kandu Health

Digital Health Global

She brings more than 20 years of experience in stroke product development, clinical research, marketing, strategy and business development. The Kandu program is intended to address critical gaps in care and to provide personalized support to stroke survivors as they transition back home from the hospital. In the U.S.,

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NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities. "It is quite effective to be able to use a mix-and-match financial strategy to afford broadband deployment over wide areas," said Tim Maylone, CEO of Cherry Capital Connection, a Michigan-based ISP.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Atrium Health has been getting plenty of feedback about those consumer journeys, and that feedback already was part of its strategy for connected-care everywhere. We're now doing that, so we don't have to wait for another mass pandemic to occur."