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With telehealth, one size won't fit all

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's not just caregivers and clinicians who have had to master the new modality for delivering care; healthcare consumers and their extended network of family and friends now have to adapt to telehealth as a new normal in accessing and receiving care. What device and what network is the consumer (and the provider) on?

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UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Unlike a weather event or a shooting, our response to COVID-19 is a continuously evolving process that has no endpoint and requires us to adapt by the hour," said Dr. Jane Fellner, a UW Medicine physician who provides clinical guidance for EHR changes. Assessing this capacity also applies to your telework capacity.

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A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Hint Health Acquires AeroDPC to Offer End-To-End Platform for Direct Primary Care Providers

Healthcare IT Today

In addition to providing doctors with relief from unnecessary administrative burden, patients are looking to DPC for higher quality healthcare with a transparent price tag. As a DPC physician myself, bringing Hint Health and AeroDPC together is extremely exciting and powerful for DPC as a whole” says Dr. Brown.

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Electronic Transactions Can Benefit Partnership Among Physicians, Insurers and TPAs

HIT Consultant

However, a strong case can be made to place the physician at the center. After all, it’s the physician who diagnoses and treats the patient. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that physicians bear more of the onus for the care experience. A 2017 study found that physicians were spending 10 hours a week on administration.

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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better

HIT Consultant

The same McKinsey report shows that only 32% of physicians – the very people administering care online – feel that telehealth can improve the patient experience. Even something as routine as an at-home test includes touchpoints with a primary care physician, insurance agent, pharmacy, testing clinic, specialists, and support staff.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than one-in-three patient interactions will go virtual globally – as the physician will no longer be the automatic first touchpoint. Several hospitals are limiting the presence of sales personnel in hospitals due to COVID-19, the majority of physicians believe these restrictions will continue.