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How virtual-first can improve outcomes and make care more affordable

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And virtual care providers – online companies that specialize in telemedicine, sometimes known as "payviders" – are offering a virtual-first approach to healthcare directly to consumers. Avihai Sodri is CEO of Antidote Health, a telehealth services provider. He has extensive experience in the virtual-first approach.

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An inside look at AdventHealth's powerful telemedicine program

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"Video visits grew substantially with COVID accounting for almost 75% of our outpatient visits during COVID. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. "Amwell became our partner in both video visits and inpatient use cases," Bard said.

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Baptist Health brings urgent care waits down to 6 minutes with telemedicine

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' "If the patient chooses the virtual option, they are walked back to the self-service kiosk, log into their MyChart account on the tablet, and be placed in line with our group of virtual urgent care providers," he continued. " Dr. Brett A. "Documentation is done via Epic, as well. No scanned documents.

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An inside look at a national, bilingual telemedicine service

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Healthcare IT News sat down with Chirichigno to get an inside look at how a national telemedicine platform works, and why bilingual service is so important to the company. "I first helped her switch her Galileo account into Spanish. Please describe how you deliver virtual healthcare. "She had recently moved to the U.S.

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Geisinger saves $560K in pilot integrating video visits into Epic MyChart

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With a large patient population in rural areas, Geisinger expanded its use of telemedicine to scale access and leverage a national workforce to serve them. Today, Geisinger Behavioral Health serves more than 45,000 unique patients annually, with more than 80% of services offered via telemedicine.

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Like it, love it, gotta have it? A health economist on different attitudes toward telemedicine

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But other factors should also be taken into account, such as hearing loss disrupting audio-only services, or the social aspects of seeing a doctor in-person. She believes patients' reasons for using (or not using) telehealth have been largely overlooked.

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Johns Hopkins develops Epic-embedded tool to better support telehealth patients

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When telemedicine appointments skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Johns Hopkins team struggled to support patients who needed extra assistance. "Outside of this pilot program, most of our clinic sites have chosen to continue to rely on their clinical support and front desk staff to support telemedicine visits.