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Cloud-based telehealth, linked with Epic EHR, helps one hospital scale up virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. Lee Health’s 600 ambulatory physicians were systematically turned on to start virtual patient-appointments within the EHR.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr. Chris Gibbons of Johns Hopkins University, who wrote about Broadband as a Health Imperative back in 2014.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). We cannot yet draw a straight line between the Federal budget layout of $35 billion allocated toward EHR investment vis-à-vis direct economic benefits or reduction of health care costs.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.” Eleven years later, Steve Jobs launched the first iPhone.

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2014 Year in Review: Consumer Engagement

Chilmark Research

For better or for worse, 2014 was a big year for consumer engagement. Yet for those big HIT vendors, the problem of interoperability still looms large, as we discovered that EHRs are still rendering corrupt or unreadable CDA files, hamstringing efforts to produce longitudinal records.

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#WWBR Week of September 22, 2014

Chilmark Research

Not too surprising that CVS chose Epic as their MinuteClinic EHR allowing them to readily share records with major HCOs such as MedStar. They intend to sell to EHRs and other HIT vendors as well as directly to larger delivery systems.” The post #WWBR Week of September 22, 2014 appeared first on Chilmark Research.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. I interviewed Fred for research I was conducted on behalf of the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) in 2014. The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace.