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Coping with Crises: Using Telemedicine to Deliver Effective Virtual Critical Care

HIT Consultant

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. How can virtual critical care keep improving to help providers manage future emergency events? Hospitals without ICUs lack trained critical care clinicians. The results have been transformative.

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Maimonides Medical Center completes massive digital health initiative in two years

Healthcare It News

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. And then March came."

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The Impact of India’s New Privacy Law on Healthcare

Triage Health Law

The illustration used to demonstrate the limits of consent relates directly to healthcare: “X, an individual, downloads Y, a telemedicine app. Since phone contact list is not necessary for making available telemedicine services, her consent shall be limited to the processing of her personal data for making available telemedicine services.”