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VA taps Philips for 10-year, potentially $100M telehealth critical care contract

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a major long-term contract to Philips to build out the VA’s tele-critical care infrastructure. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS. Philips has worked closely with the U.S. More than 20% of U.S.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

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In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data. Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility. ” Some of this data involves SDoH, such as indications of isolation.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With a PhD background in AI and machine learning, he has helped grow its electronic health record into an integrated platform. This helped the organization achieve HIMSS Stage 7 in 2017 – the first academic hospital in Canada to do so. CIO and CMIO, Monument Health. CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advancing Quality of Care

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Case #2 : A 38-year-old man was brought to the hospital with altered mental status after crashing while riding a motorcycle. On hospitals days 5 through 10, the primary team’s progress notes documented identical examinations, each auto populated from a previous note, including the phrase “moves all extremities.”