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The Future of Remote Care for Connected Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Electronic health records (EHR) had already been increasingly supplanting paper-based systems, and telehealth solutions were gradually gaining traction as an additional way to offer convenience, portability and easy access by patients. Telehealth brings experts in the field directly to patients, regardless of their location.

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How Legacy Health expanded from inpatient to ambulatory telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Legacy Health had an established telehealth program, which involves specialty-care services providing remote consultations to a variety of facilities. Eight telehealth-equipped hospitals. " The majority of care providers were trained over a period of a few weeks. Adding ambulatory telemedicine.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected. Naturally, the first focus was on exploring the new normal of telehealth and virtual care. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity. How to optimize RPM for physicians.

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Remote Care Technology and Older Adults - Filling in the basics 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Training access. For those older adults who own the right devices to obtain access, have Internet connectivity, they may need assistance in getting started with use of remote care technologies. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. It has provided a total of 680 telehealth visits.

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Technologies and strategies to maintain productivity during telehealth transition

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” "It’s important to note that, in addition to the creation of a tech-forward solution, the transition to a successful telehealth model was possible through the creation of a new position at Executive Mental Health – device technician." " Dr. Ari D. Kalechstein, Executive Mental Health.