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The goal is to advance patient safety nationally by studying and scaling telehealth as a proactive safety tool and enhance its safe use within the diverse communities served by connected care.

The academic medical center uses tele-sitter and virtual ICU platforms for a program it calls Virtual Deterioration.

"As clinicians are passionate about patients receiving quality healthcare delivered in a timely manner, I see telehealth programs being the key to improving patient outcomes and the overall healthcare experience," he says.

An expert walks through the issues and trends she eyes as most important in the year ahead and offers advice on how to tackle related challenges.

These three areas of health IT will be key for provider CIOs and other leaders to get right to ensure the best outcomes, one expert predicts.

The Amwell CEO reviews his successful predictions from last year and looks ahead at clinician-initiated telemedicine and virtual care shifting from transactional to transformational.

The result? Greatly improved patient outcomes and big cost savings.

A natural language processing expert explains why he feels the technology's kinks have been ironed out, its ROI has been proven and the timing is right for healthcare to take advantage of information-extraction tools.

These advanced technologies will do more to help provider organizations with workflow optimization, staff shortages and the patient experience in the year ahead, one expert predicts.

A healthcare AI expert offers a deep look into how these technologies can get to illnesses before they become severe, and help solve SDOH problems that cause inequities in healthcare.