Telehealth
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Michael Capriotti, senior vice president of integration and strategic operations at Virtua Health, and Ryan Bertram, principal at the Chartis Group, discuss remote patient monitoring and the new home care model.
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American Telemedicine Association (ATA) chair of the board of directors Joe Kvedar, MD, looks forward to the topics attendees can learn about at the coming ATA 2022 Conference and Expo from May 1 to 3 in Boston.
There was a 7% higher risk of developing a breakthrough infection when compared to those without a behavioral health issue.
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HIMSS SVP of government relations Tom Leary discusses HIMSS' efforts with Congress to ease access to telehealth and to improve remote patient monitoring, and how the HIMSS Foundation would like to diversify the healthcare IT workforce.
The number of Medicaid beneficiaries using the technology is on the upswing, with five states showing big increases during the pandemic.
Many consumers looking for prices on a rural healthcare provider's website weren't able to find it, and many were driven to telehealth.
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KSB Hospital's VP and CIO Ray Sharp talks about telehealth, cybersecurity training and patient data for clinical decision-making.
Beneficiaries used 88 times more telehealth services during the first year of the pandemic than they used in the prior year.
Most consider telehealth convenient, but about 28% describe it as frustrating, citing care quality and technical considerations.
By reimagining the technology it was already using, the South Dakota health system has also preserved supplies and earned high satisfaction.
