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Telemedicine boosts access, decreases inequities in Montana

Healthcare It News

The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. The use of telehealth technology can improve healthcare access for Montanans living in rural and tribal communities by providing access to primary care and specialty services.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant

Healthcare It News

"Although the statewide mandates have been lifted for care delivery, we still use telehealth as a solution for our patients who feel safer at home. The virtual care technology vendors Albert Einstein Medical Center currently uses include Teladoc, Doximity, EMOpti and Zoom. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

The continuum of care between hospital and home, and points in-between, necessities, “the ability to get access to that data, to track it, and interpret it and put intelligence on that,” Roy explained. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Care collaboration is also part of a long-term sustainable health system.

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 The Botched COVID-19 Response and What We Can Learn from It

HIT Consultant

For example, only patients who showed symptoms would receive treatment with admission into hospitals. Most clinics were required to send the patients through the emergency departments to seek specific treatment, thus reducing streamlined care through primary care physicians. About Johonniuss Chemweno.

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Living in Digital Healthcare Times – Kicking off #DigitalHealthCES & #CES2020

Health Populi

Note that representatives from several health plans are attending and speaking at CES 2020 and the Digital Health Summit this week.