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Paving the Digital Roadmap for the Patient Journey

Healthcare IT Today

Dragged into this rapid shift, healthcare organizations adopted a plethora of communication endpoints without assessing their core attributes: adaptability, functionality, interoperability, effectiveness, and reliability. The result of these data silos is decentralized data tracing, distributed workforce, and lack of interoperability.

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The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring

Healthcare IT Today

For example, a provider can use RPM to better manage the care of a patient with kidney issues or diabetes, receiving more regular updates on important activities or vital signs to diagnose and treat emergent or changing conditions much more quickly.

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Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

With the increase in digital health, remote care, and patient access, the need for a reliable platform to conduct everything has also increased. There is already so much to consider in terms of what works best for your organization, but then you need to rethink everything in terms of what is best for the patient.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The result is that clinicians have their patient’s complete history and can make evidence-based care decisions no matter where the patient is located. The Philips Acute telehealth platform, eCareManager, bridges care transitions to mitigate gaps in access and care management. Vivify Health.

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Data’s Role in Health Equity: Digging into the Root of the Problem

Healthcare IT Today

Capturing and using this data can drastically impact care delivery because social determinants of health (SDoH) influence health outcomes in very direct ways, which makes interoperability and capturing this kind of patient data so important.

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AWS physician expert talks new use cases for telehealth, machine learning, cloud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By eliminating barriers and providing greater visibility into a patient's medical history and then providing bespoke recommendations or materials to support their care, interoperability and tech stand to provide a better patient experience anywhere as well as empower patients to take greater control over their healthcare journey, he said.