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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.

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AMA's Michael Hodgkins on how to tackle the connected care problem

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How to apply for FCC's COVID-19 telehealth funding program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Using funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the plan aims to expand telehealth and remote monitoring nationwide as the U.S. combats the coronavirus public health crisis.

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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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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The lessons have been learned in real time: how to cultivate clinician buy-in, adjust to new workflows, iron out IT challenges, educate patients, manage new data streams, safeguard security and much more. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity. How to optimize RPM for physicians. How to cultivate clinician buy-in.

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While providers make clinical discoveries faster, RPM is shifting to a new care model

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Certainly, patients understand how to operate a digital weight scale or blood-pressure cuff that you could find in any online or brick-and-mortar mass retailer. "Ultimately, we need to evolve RPM to make it as automated and seamless for patients and clinicians as feasible," he said.

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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford

Health Populi

Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. First, connected care: one in five U.S. But how to get cheaper care into the hands of consumers?” households have a smart device, Deepthi noted.