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Technology is radically improving care for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This burgeoning technology is improving pre-surgery planning, tailoring custom protheses, designing tools for those with disabilities, even building organs and bones. To this end, VA developed Veterans Signals (VSignals), a digital platform to collect feedback from Veterans, eligible dependents, caregivers, and survivors.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Columbia Orthopaedic Group in Missouri, like so many ambulatory surgery centers across the country, do procedures today that are far more complex than those it did five years ago. As one of the top surgery centers in the nation per Newsweek for both 2021 and 2022, The Surgical Center at? The Surgical Center at?Columbia THE PROBLEM.

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4 Factors Driving Healthcare Transformation in 2022 to Watch

HIT Consultant

In a dynamic time for the industry, here are four of the main factors driving the changes and what they mean for the primary stakeholders: The lines between traditional and digital are blurring. the opposite of a simple price tag. A related phenomenon: a few native digital firms have expanded into brick-and-mortar offices.

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Geisinger's digital strategy to combat COVID-19 and accelerate enterprise transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At Geisinger, the crisis has been a catalyst to accelerate digital transformation. Stametz, Geisinger's vice president of digital transformation; Karen Murphy, RN, its chief innovation officer; David Vawdrey, chief data informatics officer ; John Kravitz, c hief information officer; and Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting.

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Mobile patient communication and telehealth tool helps transform Indiana Hernia Center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

My staff knows to tag me in any questions that are outside the norm so the answer comes from me. "I have to perform a great surgery, but Klara allows me to engage with my patients more efficiently. This builds trust for patients, as I am directly involved in their care and giving them accurate information 24/7.

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Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: 2022 Health Care Real Estate Year in Review

Hall Render

Continued Development of Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Ambulatory surgery centers (“ASCs”) continue to proliferate as insurers and technology allow for more procedures to be performed in an outpatient setting and patients continue to prefer care outside of the inpatient setting in the post-pandemic environment.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

1 Mass General Brigham to build AI products with Australian health tech company Mass General Brigham hospital workers to receive average 21% raises Mass General Brigham to integrate triage AI across system Mass General Brigham sued over infection control lapse Nurse practitioner pleads guilty to $7.8M