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NYC Health + Hospitals keeps patients out of ER with virtual urgent care

Healthcare It News

Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system. NYC H+H patients would then be scheduled for same- or next-day clinic-based infusion therapy."

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare It News

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. So, many provider organizations scrambled and turned to what they could. We recently switched our direct-to-consumer telehealth platform to Zoom.

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eClinicalWorks to showcase EHR and patient engagement innovations at HIMSS23

Healthcare It News

Patients expect easy access to care. Healthcare organizations must streamline the pre- and post-visit experience for improved patient satisfaction. With healow, our customers already are improving the patient experience and seeing reduced costs. RPA also streamlines front-office operations.

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Improving The Digital Experience – for Both Patient and Employee

HIT Consultant

What’s more, patients are begging for better digital experiences – and are frustrated with healthcare’s lack of functionality. Late last year, Redpoint Global found that 80% of patients prefer digital channels to communicate with their healthcare providers. Healthcare must do the same.

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Day One Notes for the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, 2022

Sheppard Health Law

While Sinovac primarily addresses the Chinese market, Sinovac has expanded globally and produces the most widely utilized COVID vaccine, accounting for approximately 40% of all COVID vaccine doses administered worldwide. Interestingly, Carbon did not talk about any value-based care approaches in its presentation.

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Waste in the Hospital Supply Chain with Luká Yancopoulos | E. 105

Vie Healthcare

If you’re performing surgery, obviously, you’re burning through a lot of supplies, you’re using anesthesia, you’re using all sorts of things that maybe your average urgent care clinic won’t need. As far as what we do here at Grapevine, we try to put power back in the hands of healthcare providers.

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Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

We are also witnessing green shoots of understanding across the many layers of health literacy for: Personal health financial literacy, a greater appreciation among consumers about the tax benefits of conserving funds in a health savings account, and what “coinsurance” shares mean.