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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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Telemedicine: What Slows Down the Healthcare of the Future

HIT Consultant

This article explores the challenges of telemedicine and examines solutions to resolve current issues. Main Obstacles the Telemedicine is Facing Today. Not only did the pandemic accelerate the implementation of telemedicine, but remote health services became a necessity. Still, there are many challenges to overcome.

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

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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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For Oak Orchard, telehealth relieves shortage of medical, dental and mental health pros

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"When patients started to come back to the office, we used in-room telemedicine equipment from Elo and Logitech. "Patients were roomed by a nurse at one of our offices where the telemedicine equipment was already set up, and our providers would be at another one of our offices or possibly working from home," he continued.

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

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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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South Korea's smart hospital concept: A focus on patients' need and experience

Healthcare It News

We aim to improve the efficiency of the entire medical service of the country. And with smart hospitals at the centre, we are moving toward providing the public with better quality medical service." "Our ultimate goal… is not to make one hospital smart.

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare It News

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.