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Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

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In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. In effect, it gave the organization the tools to ensure the right patients received the right care in the right setting.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

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Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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How telemedicine and digital therapeutics can improve orthopedic care and PT

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Patients in rural communities who live far away from brick-and-mortar care facilities. ? Patients who cannot afford copays for doctor or outpatient PT appointments. ? In many low-income communities, insufficient access to a computer also hinders the use of digital care management and remote monitoring solutions.