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How a Korean hospital has held its EMRAM Stage 7 validation for over a decade

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In 2010, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital made digital health history by being the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve Stage 7 for the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. Special attention was drawn to this repository during the validation.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was the nation's first center to perform organ transplantation in children. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app."

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Stony Brook Medicine crafts a telehealth strategic plan that bears fruit

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The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With funding support from a broad range of federal agencies – Department of Commerce, HRSA, USDA and FCC – the health system has worked with more than 150 community hospitals, clinics, medical practices, schools and other healthcare entities to bring specialty care to underserved communities and patients.

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Unleashing the Power of Protocols in Critical Care

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Tammi Jantzen, Co-founder, Astarte Medical Protocol Driven Care Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. billion in additional healthcare spending per year.

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How the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

They have seen better patient engagement, lower no-show rates and higher provider and patient satisfaction." " Hospital at home. Another lesson Burchett learned was big: Hospital-level care can indeed be provided in the home. IT does make us more efficient and that is why we make these investments."

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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.