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How RTM is a potential game-changer for improving outcomes

Healthcare It News

Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night.

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Why Healthcare Innovation Needs Human-Centered Principles

HIT Consultant

In a new era increasingly shaped by remote care, digital tools, and disruptive products, services, and operating models, we must ensure that human beings are at the center of our healthcare innovation. Another major barrier to the efficacy of digital healthcare tools has nothing to do with patients at all.

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

Healthcare It News

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.