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HIMSSCast: Primary care docs are adopting new tools, but maintaining the human core

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Diane Rittenhouse joins host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to talk about the unique impact of COVID-19 on primary care, how digital tools like telehealth can help, and how primary care providers can move forward in this new world.

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Providers' best weapon against the 'retail revolution'? Digital health transformation

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Driven in large part by healthcare's move toward consumerism and patient experience, the revolution also is powered by technology innovation – as well as how providers and patients have been responding to the pandemic. So why not healthcare? How is the retail revolution affecting hospitals and health systems today?

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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As AI, virtual care reshape the healthcare workforce, remember the difference between 'tasks and jobs'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like so much else in healthcare, that's set to change in the years ahead – is already changing – thanks to the twin revolutions of technology and consumerism. More than half of respondents to a recent Accenture survey said they've already made use of wearable devices so far this year.).

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Episode 23: The Emerging Investigatory Focus on Telehealth: What You Need to Know

Healthcare Law Today

Please click here to view his full bio. So when things start to fall apart, people give you a call, right? And so, I think you would be well-suited and advised to anticipate how to respond to that and, attendant to that would be, how to reduce the risk of non-compliance. Nate Lacktman. Maureen Stewart.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's required new ways of working, new methods of communication, new solutions to old problems and innovative solutions to new problems. Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City.

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Sweetwater Medical reduces patients' blood pressure and weight with AI and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The team always has seemed strapped for time, finding it challenging to monitor at-risk patients with hypertension and obesity to help manage their chronic conditions and look for signs of impending problems. Sweetwater Medical Associates is a single-clinic family practice and internal medicine facility in Sugar Land, Texas. THE PROBLEM.

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