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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" That could impact the course of future implementations, because "those folks are being diverted from longer term strategies," he added. "There is definitely distraction that will lead to (future) delays."

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Atrium Health has been getting plenty of feedback about those consumer journeys, and that feedback already was part of its strategy for connected-care everywhere. We're now doing that, so we don't have to wait for another mass pandemic to occur."

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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RPM, enabled with AI, can improve congestive heart failure care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This has led to improved communication between different healthcare providers involved in a patient's care, resulting in more coordinated and effective treatment strategies. This suggests that RPM is not only improving patient care but also potentially reducing healthcare costs associated with frequent hospitalizations.

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A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 1: Your Strategy for Navigating the Unexpected

Society for Participatory Medicine

Within three days of her initial procedure she was on a ventilator and unable to speak for nearly her entire stay at the hospital. Others started at different hospitals and came to UCSF when it became clear a transplant was their only hope. It soon became clear she would require a lung transplant in order to recover.

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Modular, Data-Driven, Connected, Avelios Medical Secures €30 Million from Sequoia Capital for its Next-Generation Hospital Information System

Healthcare IT Today

Great Potential With SAP exiting the HIS market by 2030, hundreds of German and European hospitals must rethink their system landscape. This presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul hospital IT, elevating the quality of care, and boosting process efficiency.

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NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities. "It is quite effective to be able to use a mix-and-match financial strategy to afford broadband deployment over wide areas," said Tim Maylone, CEO of Cherry Capital Connection, a Michigan-based ISP.