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With the U.S. underinvesting in ambulatory care, patients avoiding preventive visits and PCPs still overburdened, new IT and staffing strategies are needed. But one expert says fee-for-service payments are standing in the way.

It also offers online training to upskill health workers.

This form of telehealth addresses the psychiatrist shortage, helps serve patients in underserved areas and boosts patient satisfaction, a telepsychiatry expert says.

Techmedo founder Zahid Ali sees changemakers as surmounting the challenges they faced during the pandemic.

The 28-state health system is using telemedicine to greatly expand its footprint for its specialists, who are concentrated in a metro area of northwest Ohio.

The chief digital and information officer discusses deploying ambient voice technology throughout many departments to ease documentation and clinician burden.

American Surgery Center's move to automated billing and inventory tracking bolstered its bottom line, its leaders say, and helped improve decision-making across the enterprise.

Cynthia Perazzo and Alex Bacchetti from AVIA talk about how technology can augment the workforce and help reduce burnout, using learnings from the pandemic era.

Also, New Zealand's Pharmaceutical Management Agency has developed an assessment tool to guide clinicians in issuing COVID-19 antiviral treatments.