Telehealth

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It improves access to follow-up care for patients with simple fractures.

It will provide 24/7 support and monitoring of critically ill patients.

The CEO of Amwell, Cleveland Clinic's partner in the telehealth initiative, discusses how the organizations are expanding their virtual care and remote patient monitoring efforts and where they see telemedicine in five years.

Also, WA Health has started expanding its remote monitoring technology to regional communities.

Many health facilities are already delivering acute and intensive care virtually or at home.

Julie Eastman, RN, has been associate chief information officer at the Orange County health system for the past 18 months. With the promotion, she'll supervise IT operations and lead efforts on telecom, biomedical engineering and more.

The use of voice interfaces to follow up with discharged patients at home can extend care and reduce readmissions, said Freddie Feldman, director of voice and conversational interfaces at Wolters Kluwer.

Remote patient monitoring has helped the health system boost patient engagement, improve patient care quality through evidence-based therapies and reduce clinicians' workloads.