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The future of telemedicine: purpose-built, integrated platforms

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Propelled into mainstream use by the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is becoming standard practice for many healthcare providers. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. While telemedicine has undoubtedly come a long way, it still has significant limitations.

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How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

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Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Please explain how, and the value virtual primary care adds here.

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How telehealth can keep people with disabilities out of the ER

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Virtual care has inherent advantages that help to prevent excess visits to the ED for all populations, including people with disabilities. Offering individuals with disabilities quality care from their homes can help to prevent avoidable visits.

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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

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The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Roundup: Sheba Medical Center launches remote monitoring program, ORCHA creates digital health academy and more

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The program will use remote monitoring technology provided by Datos Health , a member of Sheba’s Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate (ARC) telemedicine hub. ” ORCHA creates online platform for UK healthcare professionals. ” Digital transformation in community health services needs backing, says report.

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Telehealth helps address many key chronic care management challenges

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is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors. What are the challenges that chronic care management faces today and into the future? Here, technology and care services offer support to both patients and healthcare providers.

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Digital front doors' advantages when meeting population health needs

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But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.