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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. We had to reinvent how to engage, monitor, and treat” patients with new approaches both in and outside the acute care setting. What a difference 90 days makes. equipment and hardware). “We

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VA working with Apple to broaden telehealth access for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The new iPad initiative has its roots in the VA's Connected Tablet program , which launched in 2016 and, research shows, has created a more satisfying patient experience and made veterans less likely to miss appointments. Evans, chief officer in the VA's Office Of Connected Care, spoke with Healthcare IT News earlier this year.

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How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. As Evans explained, VA video-to-home telehealth encounters increased by 3,147% from 294,847 encounters in fiscal year 2019 to 9,575,958 encounters in fiscal year 2021. Also in 2021, VA provided more than 2.3

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Horizon Health gains operational ROI from EHR and telehealth integration

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. " PROPOSAL In 2019, Horizon had deployed telemedicine technology from vendor Amwell. Then COVID-19 hit.

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Solving the Disconnections in Connected Care

GlobalMed

Inpatient adoption has risen from 54 percent in 2014 to 85 percent in 2019 according to Definitive Healthcare’s 2019 Inpatient Telehealth Study. Any organization that’s serious about improving their outcomes with telemedicine owes it to their patients to ensure their connected care is truly connected.

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MedStar Health uses $2M AHRQ research grant to enhance telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. This grant comes as we near the conclusion this month of our first two-year, $1 million award studying how telehealth transformation impacted primary care access.

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VA Connected Care Chief: Telehealth Is 'Going to Become Health Care'

care innovations

“This is going to become health care,” says Dr. Neil Evans of telehealth. A physician board certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, Dr. Evans also serves as Chief Officer for the Office of Connected Care (OCC) at the U.S. The VA Office of Connected Care & ‘Anywhere to Anywhere’ Initiative.