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The majority of health plans say they do not feel ready to meet the new FHIR interoperability standards mandated by CMS.

Clinicians have been using the immersive technology to minimise patient contact and improve acute care during COVID-19.   

Healthcare IT News finds out the effective ways to build the digital continuum for the post-cure gap.

The Centralized Scheduling Solution from Cerner will enable better care coordination for 60,000 vets at that location, and will eventually be rolled out to all Veterans Affairs facilities nationwide.

The announcement, which was expected last week, had been delayed after reports of pushback from National Institutes of Health officials.

Before COVID-19, Central Maine Healthcare had used remote care sparingly, says CMIO Dr. Steven Martel. By July, it had conducted 25,000 virtual visits.

The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute will fund a study designed to assess how COVID Watch, its text-based monitoring program, has improved care in hard-hit minority communities – and how it can be further improved.

Following President Trump's executive order on virtual care, the American Hospital Association issued a series of recommendations supporting access to telehealth after the public health emergency ends.

Those pandemic-era technologies will reach the fabled Plateau of Productivity sooner than other emerging innovations approaching the peak of the curve, such as digital twins, data fabric and SASE network architecture, researchers say.

That was just one discovery made by MEBS Counseling when COVID-19 accelerated its plans to add telemedicine. Today it’s seeing close to its normal volume of patients with telehealth alone.