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Also, Tasmania has launched a clinical real-time alert system as part of the state's health system digital transformation.
Sherene Schlegel, RN, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer for virtual care and digital health at the 51-hospital health system, offers a tour of its comprehensive telemedicine offering. She explains the program's evolution and highlights big results.
The agencies' special telehealth registries will also be postponed with this latest delay of long-awaited telehealth prescribing guidance.
While healthcare organizations applaud lawmakers' support for extending flexibilities in FY25 stopgap legislation, they still have concerns about long-term certainty for virtual care.
The connected care leader at Philips explains how remote patient monitoring tech can combat hospitals' and health systems' problems with patient retention and overall capacity.
Also, the NSW government has launched a free virtual urgent care service in Sydney.
If the DEA's role is not properly limited, there could be an overreach where the agency influences or even dictates how healthcare practitioners make decisions, which could impact patient care, says Dan Cohen, president of RTM company Adhere+.
This comes after pulling funding for some telehealth services amid receding uptake and cost-cutting.
Tom Leary, senior vice president and head of Government Relations at HIMSS, gives a rundown of healthcare priorities.
A new chatbot on its mobile health app features AI-based avatars that can communicate synchronously with patients through text, voice, or video chat.
