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Telehealth and RPM help St. John's reduce healthcare disparities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles had the resources to provide large-scale COVID-19 testing, it was clear that its service area of South L.A. and Compton would be at significantly higher risk for COVID-19 infection and complications than other areas of L.A. Even before St. THE PROBLEM.

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

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

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" 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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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But as 2020 unfolds, with the COVID-19 pandemic severely testing health-system capacity, telehealth is stepping up. It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience.

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Geisinger's telemedicine program shoots from 20 specialties to more than 70

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"To recruit clinicians outside of the geographic region, it was necessary to ensure the entirety of the clinician's visits could be completed remotely and that they were licensed in the state in which the patient is located at the time of the visit," he added. " David Fletcher, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE.

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Audio-Video Telehealth, Mobile Device Management & You

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Are providers and professionals allowed to download mobile applications to mobile devices? For Beginners - Basic Telehealth Concepts Telehealth is also referred to as Telemedicine. During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), many states waived this requirement or provided specific exceptions.

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Deep dive: Tracking the past 12 months of telehealth at Yale New Haven Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.

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