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To Truly Address Behavioral Health Worker Shortages, We Need Telemedicine

HIT Consultant

In late September, the Senate Finance Committee released a bipartisan discussion draft bill that aims to address the nation’s crippling behavioral healthcare crisis by providing funding for 4,000 Medicare Graduate Medical Education psychiatry residencies over the next decade. Through telemedicine.

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Telehealth helps address many key chronic care management challenges

Healthcare It News

Esterly, formerly the chief growth and strategy officer at Centria Healthcare, was hired for his deep experience and acute understanding of provider organizations, combined with his proficiency in leveraging technology to reach vulnerable populations. Here, technology and care services offer support to both patients and healthcare providers.

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Recommendations to Enhance Telemedicine in Nursing Homes in the Age of COVID-19

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Are you already using telemedicine in your LTC facility? Recommendations to Enhance Telemedicine in Nursing Homes in the Age of COVID-19 is set to appear in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association [1]. Telemedicine activity in U.S.

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City of Hope advances cancer care with hybrid telehealth and in-person visits

Healthcare It News

In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services. Healthcare IT News published a special report listing these vendors and details about their offerings. Then COVID-19 emerged. " MARKETPLACE.

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AMA, Brigham and Women's, Joint Commission target equity, quality & safety

Healthcare It News

health systems approach their quality improvement and patient safety practices with health equity top of mind. The goal of the Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network – which offers a year-long mentorship and networking program – is to improve health outcomes for historically marginalized populations.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.