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Telemedicine is a major driver in shifting the healthcare delivery model

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Based upon the positive results of these initial telemedicine efforts and the overwhelmingly positive response from patients, it is clear that telemedicine will continue to be an integral part of the healthcare delivery system. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. This is a time of transition for the healthcare industry.

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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. It has various applications in healthcare, including tracking medical equipment and medicines, monitoring patient movements, and managing medication inventory. As RFID expands rapidly, it can trigger security and privacy concerns.

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Insurance Coverage for Psychedelic Therapy

Bill of Health

By Vincent Joralemon As therapies using drugs like MDMA, psilocybin, and LSD advance through the FDA research and approval pipeline, patients should be prepared for steep price tags attached to these procedures. Although this may be highly cost-effective (considering the cost of untreated PTSD), insurers may balk at the price tag.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Clinicians from Scripps Research and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine collaborated on this work, calling out the relatively fast adoption of HaH programs during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health.

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Technology is radically improving care for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Some of the most important technological developments take place in the field of medicine, radically transforming the quality of care patients receive now and in the future. Some of the biggest breakthroughs in healthcare delivery, though, have come in the field of 3D printing. Empowering future innovation.

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2020 rings in new decade at Penn Medicine, closes chapter of big change

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Artificial Intelligence Network Infrastructure Precision Medicine Privacy & Security Telehealth Its CIO looks ahead to a future with advances in mobility, imaging, telemedicine, virtual reality, 5G/6G, artificial intelligence, data security, genomic sequencing and translational research.

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A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Yet, it took the desperation associated with a pandemic to bond like-minded team members to collaborate in order for telemedicine to become an innovative mainstay in the delivery of patient care. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.