August 7, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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As the penalty for avoidable readmissions will continue to grow, one hospital has been proactive in connecting with outside care facilities to help lower its readmission rates—and the results have been impressive.
July 30, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Midwest Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM), a St. Louis-based group of high-risk obstetricians, tripled its number of telemedicine consultations during the first half of the year to accommodate a higher number of patients at outlying facilities.
July 26, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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A joint effort from the University of Miami Miller Medical School Telehealth Program, the Children’s Health Fund, and Verizon was announced this week, and it will bring telemedicine on wheels clinics to underserved children.
July 22, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The New York City-based Mount Sinai Medical Center and Real Time Medical, a diagnostic imaging workflow innovation company from Toronto, have announced a joint collaboration project to provide teleradiology services to several New York imaging clinics.
June 28, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The combined use of data analytics and advanced telecommunications has helped the 433-bed El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif. achieve a 25 percent drop in patient readmissions.
June 24, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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We’ve come a long way with telemedicine and yet it’s in its “relative infancy,” a recent report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) revealed. That’s too bad because as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) showed me, there’s a lot of opportunity out there for it to do more.
June 21, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), an initiative that aims to increase access to specialty care to underserved areas through the use of telemedicine, will be expanded to focus on mental healthcare, and for the creation of a national institute that will replicate the model throughout the country.
June 21, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In Texas, a state that is known for its size, providing care to the nation's largest prison population is incredibly hard, especially when you consider that most facilities are dispersed in remote locations. To solve this conundrum, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice turned to telemedicine. Since the program's inception, the prison telemedicine program has been a success story, saving an estimated nearly $1 billion over 10 years while cutting back ER admissions rates.
June 18, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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According to a new report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research, integration with electronic medical record (EMR) systems is one of the biggest barriers to telehealth adoption in a provider setting. Even as providers increasingly use and invest in telehealth solutions, no single electronic medical record (EMR) vendor has established itself in a leader in the space, the report found.
June 12, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The University of California (UC), San Diego Health System is set to launch a telemedicine pilot initiative that will aim to address overcrowded emergency departments (EDs), the organization announced this week.
June 6, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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A new report from the New York City-based research firm, Kalorama Information indicates that the telemedicine market has grown 237 percent in five years, from 2007 to last year. In a report, Advanced Patient Monitoring Systems, Kalorama revealed that the market value went from $4.2 billion to $10 billion in that time period.
May 31, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The Verizon Foundation, Swinfen Charitable Trust and the University of Virginia Health System have announced the expansion of an innovative telemedicine program into rural communities in India and the Philippines. This program will utilize mobile- and cloud-based technology that will connect renowned physicians around the world to doctors in these communities to assist them with patient diagnoses and care.
