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

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In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region. Following the public health emergency, primary care providers massively scaled the use of telemedicine.

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Stony Brook Medicine crafts a telehealth strategic plan that bears fruit

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Improve health outcomes by ensuring adequate follow-up and better patient adherence and patient satisfaction. Secure the institution as an academic health center using innovative biomedical technology. "The questions were: What platform could help us connect to patients regardless of location?

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

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With this, the health system saw many hospitals experience strains in their ability to accommodate the volume of patients needing care. "Within two weeks of closing clinics due to COVID, behavioral health found it was able to complete more visits than it had prior to COVID because of the improved no-show rate.

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Health Provider News – October 7, 2022

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Arkansas health official: Falling covid numbers show that state is ‘headed in the right direction’. Broadband, public health are two big recipients in Arkansas American Rescue Plan funds. Atlanta hospital swamped after nearby medical center begins ED diversions. Summit Health eager to continue aggressive growth.