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How the hybrid future of telemedicine may play out

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care.

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Upstate Medical University decreases no-shows by 59% with telehealth, which patients love

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Athenahealth launches new EHR-embedded telehealth tool

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Athenahealth announced this week that it had launched an embedded telehealth tool to allow practitioners to conduct virtual visits without having to download separate software or use another third-party app. " WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. "When you introduce rapid change, that potential goes up rapidly," he said.

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Is Doxy.me HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

If any positives resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated chaos surrounding it, count the accelerated acceptance of telehealth services as one of them. offers a no-download-required browser-based option that claims to be a proper telemedicine solution. appeared first on Compliancy Group. But is Doxy.me

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Zoom Became a Household Name in the Pandemic. It’s Working to Do the Same in Healthcare – At #HIMSS21

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic digitally transformed most people living in the U.S., This is designed to take out friction of having to download an app, allowing the patient to simply open up an email or text that contains a Zoom meeting link from the provider.

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For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Then COVID-19 hit. Muro received a call from the CEO: "Could you stand up a COVID-19 virtual visit offering tomorrow?" "Under the proposed plan, patients would download an app on their smartphone or other digital device and use it to request a virtual visit," Muro explained. MARKETPLACE.

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