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In charting a future course for healthcare, let’s think bigger

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The result is more of a bolted-on capability than an integrated whole that can truly transform healthcare delivery in ways that improve outcomes, lower costs, reduce health disparities and re-imagine the patient experience to a fully evolved and connected care journey. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Connecting Systems, Connecting Care: Improving Comms from Point of Injury to MTF

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Because of those factors, it has been incumbent on the military care providers to find workarounds in order preserve the health, safety, and longevity of each Soldier, Sailor, Marine, and Airman during the course of care. “This is a huge challenge in operational medicine,” he said.

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How U.S. healthcare leaders are shifting course to navigate a changed world

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" This seventh annual edition of the report from global technology vendor Philips analyzes feedback from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 15 countries on the impact of digital health technology in the adoption of connected care. Click here for the U.S. edition of the report. Click here for the global edition.).

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DEA plans to create a special telehealth registration for prescribers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"DEA has determined that the best course of action to ensure patient access to care, while maintaining sufficient safeguards to prevent and detect diversion of controlled substances, is to establish and maintain a regulatory scheme," the agency said in the notice published Wednesday.

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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Evans, VA Office Of Connected Care. At HIMSS20, Dr. Neil C. " Neil C.

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Most clinicians can't access telehealth directly from EHRs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The strong support shown for telehealth, as evidenced in these results, reinforces the knowledge that telehealth is critical to how we deliver healthcare today,” said Dr. Steve Ommen, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Connected Care, and one of the study’s coinvestigators, in a statement.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

JLL points out that surgery centers are performing more complex procedures today, and complexity will continue to grow surgicenters’ procedure lists over the next decade — moving more complex care closer to peoples’ homes.