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

Healthcare It News

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest safety net health system in the United States, serving more than one million patients annually, including the most vulnerable New Yorkers. Consumers have come to expect an array of options bringing care closer to home, including virtual urgent, remote patient monitoring and mobile delivery.

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For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

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El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is located near Silicon Valley, home to self-driving cars and robots that deliver food. Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system. THE PROBLEM.

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14 Ways to Reduce Long Patient Wait Times

Healthcare Success

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

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Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients. A big chunk of telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health's business is in primary care.

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Maimonides Medical Center completes massive digital health initiative in two years

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It is Brooklyn's largest hospital, with more than 600 beds, 6,500 staff, 43,000 annual inpatient discharges and 600,000 annual outpatient encounters. It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. THE PROBLEM. " Rob Cimino, Maimonides Medical Center.

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A Hawaii health system meets island community and COVID-19 needs with telehealth

Healthcare It News

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

Further substantiation for nurses’ topping this poll of excellent care is that Gallup found historic low confidence in the U.S. Nurses have ranked highest in honesty and ethics in past Gallup polls , demonstrating the profession’s consistent image and delivery of services that patients highly value on the front lines of care.

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