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Technology is radically improving care for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This burgeoning technology is improving pre-surgery planning, tailoring custom protheses, designing tools for those with disabilities, even building organs and bones. To this end, VA developed Veterans Signals (VSignals), a digital platform to collect feedback from Veterans, eligible dependents, caregivers, and survivors.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

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Columbia Orthopaedic Group in Missouri, like so many ambulatory surgery centers across the country, do procedures today that are far more complex than those it did five years ago. As one of the top surgery centers in the nation per Newsweek for both 2021 and 2022, The Surgical Center at? The Surgical Center at?Columbia THE PROBLEM.

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Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults 2020 -- Themes Emerge

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That digital divide applied whether they live in senior living communities, nursing homes or remained in their own homes. As the pandemic proceeded, organizations experimented with (now-reimbursed) telehealth across multiple types of consultation, ranging from dermatology , plastic surgery , internal medicine appointments and beyond.

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Eight Intriguing Offerings from the 2019 Voice Summit

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At the conference, an Alexa skill enables patients to get answers from Alexa, in their doctors' voice, after going through a surgery." category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Learn a bit more at Witlingo. WooHoo from SmartBeings. SmartBeings, Inc.,

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Allurion: first HealthTech IPO of 2023 via SPAC with Compute Health

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Additionally, the company has been criticized for its high price tag. The Obalon Balloon System costs $2,000 and the digital weight loss program costs $199 per month. Procedure-free: The Allurion Gastric Balloon is inserted into the stomach through the mouth, so there is no need for surgery.

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Geisinger's digital strategy to combat COVID-19 and accelerate enterprise transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At Geisinger, the crisis has been a catalyst to accelerate digital transformation. Stametz, Geisinger's vice president of digital transformation; Karen Murphy, RN, its chief innovation officer; David Vawdrey, chief data informatics officer ; John Kravitz, c hief information officer; and Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting.

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Telehealth: Removing Roadblocks to Care

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In the Texas Panhandle, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) surgery team decided to tackle the region’s high skin cancer rates by partnering with local clinics in small towns to bring mobile screenings for melanoma to local residents, no travel required. Contact Us. RELATED TELEHEALTH TOPICS.