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Telehealth trends in 2023: Virtual-first, health equity and more

Healthcare It News

Michael Gorton is founder and CEO of Recuro Health, a virtual care company that offers Digital Medical Home, which enables members in all 50 states to virtually access comprehensive healthcare services, including virtual primary and urgent care, behavioral health, at-home lab testing, genomics testing, as well as a suite of supplemental benefits.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

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Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. "The AI-powered platform engages patients, staff and clinicians through a chatbot designed with 100% remote care capabilities.

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Peerbridge Health Launches Trial for Ambulatory ECG Wearables

HIT Consultant

Its versatility enables monitoring in outpatient, in-hospital, and home environments, with broad use cases such as: Early Disease Detection : With rapid diagnostics for 50% of indications in as little as 5 minutes, the device enables affordable screening in primary care offices, urgent care facilities, and retail clinics.

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

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– Bingham Memorial Hospital in Blackfoot, Idaho, was awarded $840,111 for the purchase of tablets, webcams, and headsets, along with remote monitoring software, to provide telehealth services to patients in a county without ubiquitous broadband coverage. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Compass Health in St. .

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Key Barriers Could Limit Adoption of Home-Based Care Models

Home Health Care

“The pandemic has gifted the opportunity to transform how health care is delivered and this report is an important step in ensuring home-based care is part of our health care future.”. health care system. Meanwhile, the surge in virtual care was driven by quick decisions by Congress and the U.S.

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‘Delivering Value Requires Transformation’: How Humana Is Tearing Down Silos, Accelerating Home-Based Care Innovation

Home Health Care

Throughout the public health emergency, there has been an acceleration in the acceptance of home-based care and remote care. We’ve seen the acceleration in both home-based care and virtual care in many different ways throughout the pandemic. In general, what are some of the ways you’ve seen this?

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Virtual Care During the Pandemic: Five Lessons Learned

Accountable Care Doctors

Northwell Health has just launched “ER on Demand,” a new telehealth program that operates from 8 pm to 8 am every night and provides access to an emergency medicine physician when it is too late to visit urgent care. Seeing Patients Remotely Requires Excellent “Webside Manner”. The pandemic accelerated this trend.