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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHY IT MATTERS To identify common facilitators and barriers to telehealth implementation, researchers evaluated practice leaders' perspectives on 32 aspects of telemedicine in their practices, according to a new report published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

Health Populi

We will continue to monitor all aspects of telehealth, from primary care and prevention to specialty care access, as well as to consumer/retail-driven demand for services like these for the GLP-1s, sexual dysfunction ( note Ro’s latest entry into the GLP-1 category expanding beyond its original lifestyle medicines roots).

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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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

Continue Education Journal

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.

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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CSC’s four community clinics swiftly prioritized telemedicine training and changed practice workflows to incorporate the LANES platform. However, if a patient was unable to visit in person but still needed care, clinical support staff faced an impediment to performing medication reconciliation. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.