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Nursing community collaboration on the European COVID-19 front-lines

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Similarities in cross-border community challenges. are lower than Spain (9.7)

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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19Labs hosts rural prenatal care webinar in partnership with EchoNous

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A few days ago, we co-hosted a webinar with Echonous, the manufacturer of Kosmos, a handheld ultrasound that is one of the devices part of our GALE eClinics. When it comes to prenatal care, the ability to answer clinical questions onsite in a timely manner helps improve medical outcomes and avoids pregnancy complications.

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"The sustainable advancement of telehealth is one that removes inequalities in healthcare"

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Although live-video consultations between physicians/nurses and patients hadn't been widely used before COVID-19, technical foundations helped providers to leverage digital health immediately after the outbreak of the pandemic. Patient care is not about separate primary care, secondary care, hospital care.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In addition, we responded to requests from our telemedicine partners and expanded our work with community hospitals, FQHCs, and particularly with skilled nursing, long-term care and correctional facilities, congregate settings in which the prevalence of COVID-19 was disproportionately high," she added.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

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Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services. With telemedicine, patients are able to seek services from providers in larger communities without having to coordinate travel plans or using the distance as a valid excuse to not seek treatment or care. Amwell Opportunity.

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Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

eConsult and referral management vendor AristaMD launched a unified care transition platform for primary care. Precision health company LifeOmic launched its Patient Mobile App , enabling two-cay communication between patients and care teams.

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