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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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How proactive, predictive, AI-powered patient oversight can boost health outcomes

Healthcare It News

Healthcare information technologies like AI-driven decision support and patient outreach tools can enable hospitals and health systems to achieve improved outcomes through proactive, predictive patient oversight, some health IT experts contend.

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Telemedicine boosts value-based care performance for Happy Kids

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"For example, a member who had recently been discharged from the hospital who does not follow up with their primary care physician within a week has a higher likelihood of being hospitalized soon after," Carrazco noted. "By preventing hospitalizations, we can save the industry the burden of this high healthcare cost.

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How UVA Health's Medicine HOME program reduces hospitalizations and readmissions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

Healthcare It News

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND.

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How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. They cleared the path for parity reimbursement during the public health emergency.

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