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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? Creating “virtual critical care wards” with telemedicine tools. 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 tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. THE PROBLEM. " Rob Cimino, Maimonides Medical Center. And then March came." " PROPOSAL.

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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.”