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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

On the consumer demand side, patients’ growing use of telehealth in the COVID-19 pandemic along with more frequent digital contacts with health plans bolstered member satisfaction, discovered by t he J.D. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 60% of providers told BDO they are adding new digital projects in 2021.

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At UPMC, Android-enabled telehealth keeps child transplant patients safe

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The children live nationwide but the focus is on areas heavily impacted by COVID-19, such as the Northeast and the central and southeastern U.S. Transplant activity at UPMC Children's Hospital was able to be safely maintained during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE PROBLEM.

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Nurse unions slam Kaiser's advanced care at home strategy

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" "The Kaiser Permanente Advanced Care at Home is an innovative person centered program rooted in quality, safety and patient satisfaction. Patients enrolled in the program must meet established clinical and safety criteria," the representatives continued. THE LARGER TREND.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" With the onset of COVID-19, UVA Health pivoted as an academic health center to scale telehealth technologies that addressed the challenge of clinic closures and the need to limit exposure to COVID-19 both for providers and patients, and provided critically important continuity of care. '" PROPOSAL.

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How AI and machine learning can help predict SDOH needs

Healthcare It News

Social determinants of health are major contributors to health inequity and rising healthcare costs in vulnerable populations such as Medicaid beneficiaries. For example, training a predictive model on the general population may be inaccurate when used in a Medicare or Medicaid population.

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Sun River Health shifts 67% of its visits to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. The advent of COVID-19 radically disrupted the paradigm in which Sun River Health was operating. THE PROBLEM.

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Redefining Chronic Kidney Disease Management with Remote Patient Monitoring

HIT Consultant

This is where remote patient monitoring (RPM) comes in as an important tool. Early efforts to deploy remote monitoring tools focused on collecting blood pressure, blood glucose, heart rate, and oxygen levels. It’s possible that number could continue to grow as a result of some relatively recent changes.