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Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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South Korea begins nationwide telemedicine pilot

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Starting this September, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will officially begin the nationwide telemedicine pilot following a three-month guided pilot period. In June, the government downgraded its public health alert, which meant the end of the temporary conduct of telemedicine after three years.

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Taking stock of the sudden evolution of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For healthcare providers, telehealth presents an opportunity to address patient care needs, improve the customer experience and reduce costs. Since then, CMS has now expanded coverage for telehealth and telemedicine. How can healthcare provider organizations tackle privacy issues related to HIPPA when it comes to telemedicine?

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020. FYI, Dr. Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S.

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New survey sheds light on providers' embrace of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. What does the survey show about telemedicine addressing patient care barriers and seeing more patients?

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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A patient’s health information is presented to users as data types categorized in an organized fashion.” ” The categories make it simpler for users to look at one view of a person’s health holistically. “On the public health side, telemedicine is brand new,” Aguilar said.

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Implementation best practices: Teeing up telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible.