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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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Joe Kvedar is new president-elect of American Telemedicine Association

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association has elected Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar, vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare and a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, has served as ATA president before – from 2004-2005 – and also served on its board for several years. Kvedar to be its next president.

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Lean Digital: How Apps and Services Can Help Control Weight

Healthcare IT Today

An important turning point was a 2005 study in JAMA published by a team led by Katherine Flegal of the Centers for Disease Control. The medical profession itself is rife with improper handling of the many people whose weight is much greater than the medically recommended limits.

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How communities can better prepare for post-emergency telehealth deployments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In many parts of the country, cities are customizing RVs, vans, buses and ambulances with telemedicine tools, expanded medical capabilities, and wireless connectivity to bring healthcare directly to underserved populations in particular and parts of the general public. history, as these images show.

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Health Populi

” That was 2005. The resources needed must be considered in the light of the eventual costs of failing to invest in such an effort. The loss of human life even in a mild pandemic will be devastating, and the cost of a world economy in shambles for several years can only be imagined.”

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Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

Bill of Health

Ogden (where the Court held that boat operators crossing state lines could be regulated only by the federal government), he suggests restrictions on telemedicine licensure are tantamount to unlawful state barriers on an obviously interstate industry. As proof, they cite three cases: the Court’s 2005 ruling in Gonzales v. Marino et al.,

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