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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Those that are strategic will look at what does this mean longer term in what we plan to adopt and use, for example, for communication tools that we'll use with our clinically integrated network." HIT execs should perform IT-benchmark analysis on all tools to get a handle on what constitutes fair pricing for technology.

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Digital Diabetes Management in the Hot Seat

Digital Health Wire

Digital diabetes management tools found themselves in the hot seat after a blistering study from the Peterson Health Technology Institute suggested that several leading solutions don’t provide significant clinical benefit, especially relative to their cost. This chart summarizes the results beautifully.

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Resilience Healthcare to Implement Altera Digital Health’s Paragon® EHR and Ventus Solutions

Digital Health Global

With Paragon, the organization will gain an integrated clinical, financial and ambulatory solution across all care settings as well as clinical decision support tools at the point of care.

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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

PROPOSAL " Asynchronous video technology is important to improving patient care, supporting equitable access to care, and to our hospital moving forward our strategic enabler, called 'Sustainable Future – Advance Digital Health to Improve Patient and Staff Experiences,'" said Cindy Fedell, CIO at TBRHSC.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hamilton at AllianceChicago says the global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted expectations regarding the approach and process health IT professionals follow to identify, select and deploy healthcare information technology tools. " Andrew Hamilton, RN, AllianceChicago. Making the right investments for everything.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Orlando Health's program is the first in Central Florida to be approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of a federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to extend the scop of hospital resources. 15 and 16 from noon-4 p.m.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

Mateusz Krempa, COO at Piwik Pro Broader reflection and discussion on HIPAA-compliant technologies would help the industry see beyond popular solutions and identify tools that balance successful data processing with regulatory requirements. The following is what they had to share with us.

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