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The future of telemedicine: purpose-built, integrated platforms

Healthcare It News

Propelled into mainstream use by the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is becoming standard practice for many healthcare providers. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. While telemedicine has undoubtedly come a long way, it still has significant limitations.

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2025 forecast: Telehealth will boost panel size and enable more delegation

Healthcare It News

His is the first Epic-based virtual care company – Epic having the largest market share among EHR vendors, that makes starting up with telemedicine quite simple for a great many provider organizations. We interviewed Berkowitz, asking him for his look at the year ahead in telemedicine. Phase 1 of telehealth is dead.

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NYC Health + Hospitals keeps patients out of ER with virtual urgent care

Healthcare It News

During the peak of the pandemic, along with other New York City health systems, NYC Health + Hospitals launched a 911 call diversion intervention with the New York City Fire Department Bureau of Emergency Medical Services. There is a wide variety of telemedicine technology vendors on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Patients benefit from AI-powered care navigator at Columbia Memorial Health

Healthcare It News

"We also were keen on enhancing the overall patient experience," said Dr. Ronald Pope, vice president of medical services, care centers, at Albany Med-Columbia Memorial Health. "Therefore, we achieved more online business and prevented patients from visiting our competitors."

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Bright Health, MedArrive Partner to Deliver Preventative In-Home Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Bright HealthCare (“Bright Health”), a tech-enabled health insurance carrier, announced a new partnership with MedArrive , a healthcare platform that enables payers and providers to extend medical services into the home.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

On the consumerism front, UHC found that over one-half of people have gone online via either web search or mobile app to find medical services and seek price transparency. Even 43% of Baby Boomers said they used the internet or mobile apps in the past year to shop for medical services.