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Bipartisan bills in House, Senate seek to increase telehealth in nursing homes

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The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. This bipartisan bill will help transform rural health care and improve lives. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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HIMSS21 tech news: Epic/telehealth integration, acute care telemedicine, new remote care tech

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A new remote care management system. PatientPoint, a vendor of a patient engagement platform, has unveiled its new suite of remote care management solutions. " The panel discussion, presented in partnership with Remote Care Partners, will feature: Kelly Ladd, CEO, Piedmont Internal Medicine.

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Nursing community collaboration on the European COVID-19 front-lines

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Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Patients have embraced the shift to digital, with nurses supporting digital engagement.

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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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However, the health system's Winchester Medical Center hospital president Skip Phillips had previous experience with tele-ICU, specifically, telemedicine technology and services vendor Advanced ICU Care. Have they been open to remote care team support? MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Taming the beast of multistate provider licensure for telemedicine

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Healthcare IT News sat down with Eric Demers, CEO of Madaket, vendor of a provider data management platform, to discuss his point of view on how to streamline telehealth licensing and ensure top-level, on-demand care for the patients who need it most.

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Can telemedicine produce a successful preventative care program?

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Telemedicine tools can ensure physicians and their care teams can better manage patient care , and the associated workflow, to help their patients stay their healthiest, he added. You suggest that telemedicine services can serve as disease-prevention tools for populations of patients. Please elaborate.