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In the second phase, a cloud-based application that allows remote health monitoring, as well as managing appointments and medication requests, will be rolled out. In the final phase, NEC will enable telemedicine services to allow patients to receive diagnoses and get on consultations with doctors from their homes.
” Because residents will have the opportunity to receive primary care services in a safer environment through telehealth, Parker will contribute to publichealth goals of reducing the spread of COVID-19 while reducing excess burden on the hospital systems throughout New York City that may be overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
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They provide health measures of patients and transmit them back to providers – or in some cases are reported back to providers – to facilitate healthcare decisions from afar. A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursinghome, community clinic, etc.
Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the publichealth emergency. For example, nursinghomes were hit hard by the virus. " “Some private insurers stepped in to help, too,” they added.
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