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

Healthcare It News

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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The 7 Deadly Sins to AVOID When Fostering Patient Engagement

Medical GPS

“As the disparity between patient portal availability and adoption has taught us, usability is the key to driving active patient engagement in digital tools. But for patients, what makes a digital care management platform usable has more to do with content personalization and care continuity than the simplicity of its user interface.” (5).

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How telemedicine and digital therapeutics can improve orthopedic care and PT

Healthcare It News

In many low-income communities, insufficient access to a computer also hinders the use of digital care management and remote monitoring solutions. Applications must compensate for the digital divide in their system design to ensure content does not require internet access, which can be poor or non-existent in certain areas.