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Telehealth can play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions

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Telehealth's potential to bridge the services gap for people without ready transportation access has been well-documented. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center built a dashboard to estimate the environmental impact of the medical facility's telehealth offerings.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

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Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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To bridge the digital divide, national nonprofit offers free devices and internet

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Even in urban centers where there are shortages of specialists. A recent study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research found telehealth is nearly as effective as in-person primary care visits when it comes to addressing patient needs. What does it look like, and how does it play into telehealth?

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Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

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WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual Nursing Program, which launched this past year.

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For Oak Orchard, telehealth relieves shortage of medical, dental and mental health pros

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COVID-19 forced Oak Orchard Health, a health system based in Brockport, New York, to change the way it did almost everything at its health centers – beginning with its inability to see patients face to face. The solution Oak Orchard found was telehealth, which it continues to use today. So, telehealth helps us extend services."

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How virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis

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The Southwest Rural Health Research Center has identified mental health concerns and addiction as the first and second most important priorities for rural health stakeholders, according to a May 2023 policy brief. How can telehealth help overcome this challenge? How did this problem develop? In the last two decades, rural U.S.

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Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant

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At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. " Reshma Patel Stone, Albert Einstein Medical Center. THE PROBLEM.