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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The government seems to be also keen on utilising telehealth in addressing accessibility issues in mental healthcare. APHA CEO Michael Roff further discussed this upcoming telehealth trial with Healthcare IT News. It will be implemented initially over the next two years starting in November. Can you identify which technologies (e.g.

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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital therapeutics, provider home visits, sharable medical records have "shown that care in the home can be at least equivalent to, if not better than, care offered in facilities. They also point to research showing home-based care to reduce likelihood of hospital readmissions.

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The Healthcare Cybersecurity Ecosystem: A System in Need of Comprehensive Care

Healthcare IT Today

The Expanding Threat Landscape Hospitals grab headlines when breaches strike, but theyre just one artery in a vast network.Clinics, pharmacies, insurance providers, billing firms, telehealth platforms, medical device makers, health tech startupseven patients themselvesform an interconnected web where a single weak link can unleash chaos.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Hospital-at-home is not a discharge from the hospital, it is providing the hospital level care in the home. With that said, hospital-at-home takes the home setting to an all-new level.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Orlando Health's program is the first in Central Florida to be approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of a federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to extend the scop of hospital resources. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA. The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health

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How Employer Health Plans Can Utilize Telehealth as a Value-Added Service

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Much has been written about the benefits of telehealth services like remote care within the healthcare system. By improving patient engagement and healthy behaviors, telehealth has the potential to help keep employees out of the hospital. How Telehealth Helps Meets the Unique Challenges of Employee Health Coverage.