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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. By the end of 2021, some 21 months later, the physician burnout rate rose to an unprecedented high.

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What does the 'after COVID' business look like? IT leaders weigh in

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This is the latest in Healthcare IT News' series of feature stories on lessons learned during the COVID-19 era. Randy Gaboriault of Christiana Care Health System has been looking at healthcare lately in three distinct periods: before COVID, during COVID and after COVID. You can read the others here and here.).

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HHS, DOD and vendors partner for critical care via telehealth

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As part of the government-funded program, Avel eCARE also provided critical care consulting to a small community hospital that was inundated with COVID-19 patients. Healthcare IT News sat down with Lisa Lindgren, vice president of clinical operations at Avel eCARE, to learn more about NETCNN and telemedicine in the age of COVID-19.

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Why Telemedicine Isn’t A Temporary Fix — It’s The Future

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When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID patients out of hospitals as possible. At the onset of COVID-19 in April 2020, telehealth utilization grew 78 times from where it was just in February 2020, according to McKinsey.

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Teleradiology Market Primed to Hit $3.7Bn by 2026 – What’s Driving the Surge in Demand?

HIT Consultant

With a projection for the market to reach USD $3.7bn in 2026, here I explore five drivers fueling this period of robust growth. This is a task made tougher by an unprecedented radiologist shortage, particularly in the US, driven by burnout and wage inflation. Radiologist shortage leading to improved compensation.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

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achieved within days of the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic," said Dr. Tarun Kapoor, the health system's chief digital transformation officer. Like many health institutions nationwide, COVID-19 prompted Virtua to launch consumer-facing patient engagement solutions to manage the outbreak more proactively.

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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

It has led me to found Tapestry Health, a multispecialty medical practice that focuses on providing medical infrastructure in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as Project Patient Care, a patient advocacy organization based in Chicago, Illinois. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these challenges.