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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Internally, our providers and front desk staff were not equipped to deal with the technical support questions being presented to them," Hunter noted. "Our community health workers and social workers were not aware of the resources that existed for patients to overcome their digital barriers.

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New survey sheds light on providers' embrace of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. What does the survey show about telemedicine addressing patient care barriers and seeing more patients?

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Cincinnati Children's puts focus on patient experience with its telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. "Because of the availability of these devices, our application development team was able to build some key workflows that now allow for easy connection to any outpatient visit, or inpatient, as long as one of the tablet carts is present."

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The Future of Telemedicine Transformed by Large Language Models

Healthcare IT Today

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. Telemedicine has gained traction in recent years providing healthcare services remotely, allowing patients to receive quality care without being physically present at a healthcare facility.

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Digital Health: The Future of Patient Experience | Event Recap

Waracle

Join the conversation, sign up now for our next event in January – The Patient Experience – Empowering Patients. Optimising the patient experience is a tangible route to competitive advantage for any organisation invested in human health and wellbeing. Telemedicine. Telemedicine is here to stay.

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Telemedicine reduces ICU mortality rate at Valley Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

However, the health system's Winchester Medical Center hospital president Skip Phillips had previous experience with tele-ICU, specifically, telemedicine technology and services vendor Advanced ICU Care. " Then there is the patient experience. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Kaiser Permanente International Presents Cancer Care Reimagined

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

On March 23, KP International welcomed Tatjana Kolevska, MD, medical director of the Kaiser Permanente National Excellence in Cancer Care program, to present on the core principles of our cancer care program and our successful use of cancer care pathways. Providing seamless end-to-end cancer care with coordinated systems and digital tools.