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Launching telemedicine from within the patient portal – which enables the health system to get electronic signoff on certain documents – is a big boon for compliance and efficiency.

The agency's national survey of digital health companies shows that 73% use standards-based application programming interfaces when they are integrating with electronic health records, with a majority using the FHIR standard.

With waits for individual psychotherapy as long as several months and several thousand outstanding orders, the mostly rural health system needed a solution. Combining group therapy and telemedicine was the answer.

The med-tech industry is evolving from solely supplying advanced hardware to providing comprehensive patient care solutions. This shift influences how med-tech companies tackle product development, collaboration, and data utilisation.

Benjamin Gonzales, operations manager II, virtual care, at the powerhouse health system, shares his expertise and expectations at the HIMSS23 gathering.

Integrating the NVIDIA Clara healthcare platform could allow Medtronic to scale the development of algorithms to enhance real-time procedures and improve patient care.

The commission cites strained resources due in large part to healthcare mergers and patient data privacy challenges as a justification for a big increase over 2023 levels to support the Bureau of Competition and Bureau of Consumer Protections. 

The result the health system's virtual care chief is proudest of: reducing the referral queue from 19,000 patients to 3,000. "That is astounding," he says.