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M&A: Avel eCare Acquires NightWatch to Expand Remote Pharmacy Services

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of NightWatch , a West Virginia-based company that provides remote pharmacy services to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic region.

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5 Key Challenges Preventing Innovation in Digital Health

HIT Consultant

These demographic trends are causing shifts within the healthcare sector and resulting in increased expenditure associated with the costs of treatment and prevention in old age. Both a lack of clinical engagement and inadequate resources are two often-cited areas that prevent better integration of otherwise promising digital solutions.

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SEO vs. SEM for Healthcare: The Difference Explained

Healthcare Success

Accurate content Healthcare organizations must provide accurate content to ensure patient safety, build trust, comply with legal and ethical considerations, and prevent the spread of misinformation. The goal of healthcare SEM is to drive increased traffic to a website and achieve specific goals.

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FCC Awards Additional $42.7M in Round 2 of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

HIT Consultant

– AllianceChicago in Chicago, Illinois, was awarded $975,124 for the purchase of devices, such as telemedicine carts, and conferencing software, to facilitate telemedicine delivery to high-risk patients. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Compass Health in St. . – Community Health Centers, Inc.,

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Learning from Financial Fraud Detection to Tackle Opioid Abuse Amid COVID-19

HIT Consultant

At the same time, the Drug Enforcement Administration has loosened prescribing restrictions, including waiving the requirement for in-person visits and allowing clinicians to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine alone. Gidi Stein , MD, Ph.D., is a practicing physician, computational biologist, and Co-Founder and CEO of MedAware.

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

Health Populi

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D.

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Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Health Populi

Radiology and radiologists play starring roles in our health care, with he core work flow of diagnostic imaging supporting prevention, disease detection, diagnosis, delivering and monitoring therapy, linking specialists to other providers in telehealth, and as a medium for teaching clinicians, patients and caregivers.

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