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Direct-to-consumer telemedicine services offer many benefits, but prospective patients must take care. An expert from academia explains what to look for – and what to look out for.

The online educational events taking place during Telehealth Awareness Week explore strategies and tactics that improve access to quality telemedicine services.

Among other use cases, the AI-enabled devices can help health systems reduce the time to perform surgeries by 30%. An expert from Deloitte explains what's needed to capitalize on WCA's potential.

Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of just-launched KeyCare, talks about how contracting with a third-party telehealth service works, the importance of the Epic link – and where he thinks virtual care is headed next.

Together they manage 80 million images worldwide, and with 24/7 exchange of medical records from any device, they aim to eliminate use of CDs for digital imaging transfer.

Due to the extreme stressors of COVID-19, career disengagement characterizes a U.S. physician workforce already in short supply, the group says, calling for telehealth expansion and prior auth reforms.  

It is gathering real-world evidence to inform treatment guidelines for severe asthma.

While Australia is pushing for an enabling environment for healthcare interoperability, obstacles are still in the way of connected care.

LifePoint Health announced a partnership with Google Cloud to use its Healthcare Data Engine, and the National Institutes of Health will invest $130 million over four years to accelerate the use of AI in biomedical and behavioral research.

In the first two years of the program, the health system reduced length of stay by half of a day, cut out 20,000 excess days and saved $40 million by eliminating inefficiencies.