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FCC, HHS, and USDA Team Up for Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force

by Fred Pennic 09/01/2020 Leave a Comment

Rural Healthcare

What You Should Know: - Agencies sign a memorandum of understanding to establish an interagency Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force comprised of representatives from each agency to keep rural Americans connected to vital health services. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on the Rural Telehealth
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Cerner Launches New Cloud-Based Offering for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals

by Fred Pennic 07/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Cerner Launches New Cloud-Based Offering for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals

What You Should Know: - Cerner announced a new offering, CommunityWorks Foundations aimed at reducing costs and speeding up the implementation process for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals. - This much-needed offering caters to small rural healthcare providers, who often face challenges such as geographic isolation, workforce shortages, educational disparities, and diminishing resources that can make it harder to deliver high-quality care. - Rural hospitals serve about 20% of all
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KLAS: COVID-19 Guide to Telehealth Virtual Care & Remote Care Platforms

by Fred Pennic 05/13/2020 Leave a Comment

AmericanWell Telehealth

What You Should Know: - New KLAS telehealth reports aims to aims to provide high-level COVID-19 guidance helpful to healthcare organizations on the virtual care and remote care platform vendor landscape. - Includes high-level overviews of validated vendors’ current customer satisfaction, key questions to consider in building a strategy, and a consolidated view of KLAS’ previously published telehealth reports. Telehealth adoption in healthcare until recently had been increasing at a
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5G in Healthcare: 7 Advantages & Disadvantages for Providers to Know

by D'Arcy Gue, Director of Industry Relations at Medsphere Systems Corporation 07/18/2019 Leave a Comment

5G in Healthcare: 7 Advantages & Disadvantages for Providers to Know

It’s a fact. The more bandwidth-intensive connected medical devices and mobile devices our hospitals deploy, the more we are straining our health IT infrastructures. Something has to give. Many communications leaders see 5G technology’s real-time high bandwidth and lower latency access as powerful new technology features that are needed to expand healthcare applications’ capabilities and the functioning of medical devices, robotics, and mobile devices. Some say 5G will be transformative. Others
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Telemedicine: A Potential Remedy to Rural Healthcare Ills?

by Mary Tolan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Chicago Pacific Founders 04/03/2019 Leave a Comment

Volume to Value: The Transformation Poised to Revolutionize Medicine

Mary Tolan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Chicago Pacific Founders The symptoms are innocuous enough at first. They begin with simple fatigue; readily explainable by a day spent working under the hot sun. The thirst sets in next, then the persistent hunger. The farmer brushes his symptoms off as simple work-caused exhaustion, and rationalizes that anyone would be tired, hungry, and thirsty after a long day in the field - he's getting older, after all. He thinks little of it until his
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The Viability of Rural Healthcare Relies On Evolution

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 02/08/2017 Leave a Comment

Rural Healthcare

Choice can be a double-edged sword—we all want more of it, but with too many choices paralysis can set in. Choosing a physician or hospital, for example, in an urban or suburban area without some kind of recommendation can truly be a daunting task.But it beats having few or no choices. Increasingly, that’s the situation rural Americans find themselves in as the number of hospitals decreases and specialists stay in the cities.While this may have been the trend in rural healthcare over the past 10
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Is CMS Efforts Enough to Transform Rural Healthcare?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 02/22/2016 Leave a Comment

Rural Healthcare

Imagine you’re living in Brooklyn and you have a medical emergency. If the hospital nearest you, say Lutheran Medical Center, were to close, you could go to Maimonides or New York Methodist a short taxi or ambulance ride away. Now, let’s say you’re badly injured and you live outside rural Tulare, California, in one of the most productive agricultural counties in the U.S. If Tulare Regional Medical Center went away, you might have to life flight to Bakersfield, Los Angeles or the Bay Area.
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Independa Unveils New Home Health Monitoring Option

by Fred Pennic 01/11/2012 Leave a Comment

  Independa today announced plans during the 2012 International CES for Health Measures – a platform combining conventional telephony with existing Independa cloud-based services to improve remote care for the elderly. Simple, affordable Health Measures doesn’t require cellular coverage, broadband service or wireless devices in the home, making it ideal for care recipients who live in rural areas with poor cellular coverage, have limited funds to invest in wireless health devices, or
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