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Decatur County Memorial Hospital used nearly $700K from the FCC to implement telehealth and remote patient monitoring and improve network infrastructure, helping both providers and rural patients.

Following the success of the Personify Care platform in minimising readmissions after general surgeries, St John of God Murdoch Hospital is rolling it out to the specialist surgery wards.

The telehealth and RPM use cases the Colorado health system had been prioritizing prior to the pandemic shifted gears when it was forced to fast-track many of its initiatives in a more controlled approach.

Healthcare organizations are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of cyberattacks. While this makes healthcare the industry with the most cyberattacks, organizations can take four steps to protect themselves.

The prolific health system is now able to offer telemedicine appointments to patients for primary care, urgent care and more than 70 specialties. More than 8% of total outpatient visits now are conducted virtually.

Health system officials say the remote patient monitoring acquisition will enable more of its patients to "age independently, comfortably and affordably."

The $100,000 grant will enable purchase of camera and microphones to help caregivers spot signs of trouble in hospital rooms and intervene when necessary.

 The move is a push by Optum and UHG to advance value-based care and expand into the home healthcare market.

Analyst John Gordon sheds some light on a new study examining virtual care use among Medicare beneficiaries from March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021.

The tech giant also provided an update on its artificial intelligence research and announced the expansion of YouTube's tools to mitigate the spread of health misinformation.