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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

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THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it's very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to care for remote and rural patients. "And HCT are healthcare operations experts.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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" "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring." "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.

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Telemedicine racks up big cost savings and enhanced care for Nebraska hospital

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" This forced Chase to retain patients longer than normal, requiring a higher level of care not typically seen in the critical access hospital. "Avel installed secure, interactive, high-definition video and audio equipment and trained our staff. "The technology is easy to use," Cyboron noted.

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

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Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. The organization has offered services such as virtual urgent care, telepsychiatry and virtual post-op appointments for several years to meet the needs of patients.

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Telestroke service reaches rural NSW faster than the metro

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This life-saving service connects patients with a network of specialist stroke doctors via video consultation, managed by Prince of Wales Hospital. The service has so far delivered treatment to over 3,000 stroke patients at 23 rural and regional hospitals in the state.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

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In this use-case, a patient would call the Nurse Triage/Assessment and Treatment Center, where with the click of a button, a staff member could escalate to a video conference with a medical staff member in order to help determine next steps. The platform was developed in-house using Cisco WebEx APIs for WebRTC. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

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" 60% said they were "very" or "extremely" prepared to manage portals, but fewer health systems were well-positioned to store high volumes of data (53%), offer provider-facing communication platforms (50%), or secure video technology to connect docs and patients (47%). Further down the list?