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Malaysia’s Sunway Medical Center launches Telemedicine Command Center

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Sunway Medical Center, a private healthcare provider under Malaysia’s Sunway conglomerate company, has launched a Command Center for Telemedicine Services in early 2021, the private tertiary hospital recently announced. The first phase of the Telemedicine Command Center provides first level healthcare advisory services to patients.

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Telemedicine reduces ICU mortality rate at Valley Health

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"We asked ourselves, 'How do we grow our program, support our existing physicians and still meet the care needs of our community?'" " The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added.

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Telehealth boosts continuity of care, patient-provider relationships at Ellis Medicine

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There were significant opportunities for both telephone and video visits to be captured through telemedicine. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. This significantly helped Ellis Medicine fast-track its strategic plan to offer telemedicine.

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Telemedicine in Rural Areas: Increasing Access to Care

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In rural areas, the need for remote care and treatment is even more pressing due to limited resources and access to medical facilities. Telehealth, specifically telemedicine , offers an effective solution for meeting this demand by providing technology-enabled care to patients who are unable to access traditional healthcare services.

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How Legacy Health expanded from inpatient to ambulatory telehealth

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Legacy Health had an established telehealth program, which involves specialty-care services providing remote consultations to a variety of facilities. The health system had been using vendor Teladoc for its inpatient telemedicine platform. Adding ambulatory telemedicine. Eight telehealth-equipped hospitals.

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Telehealth, linked to an EHR, drastically reduces no-show rate at Garfield Health Center

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Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. County, the health center reasoned that rolling out telemedicine, and thereby reducing foot traffic to the clinics, was the only way that it could safely continue to treat patients with non-acute needs.

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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

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WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. before the pandemic to 8.18 hours in September 2021, according to the study.

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