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April 04, 2024
The innovative collaboration bridges the gap between the hospital and patients’ homes. WASHINGTON – MedStar Health is now partnering with DispatchHealth, a leading provider of in-home care...
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March 23, 2021The MedStar Health telehealth and philanthropy teams have partnered to produce a summary titled, “One year of historic change and care: COVID-19 telehealth response.”
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February 19, 2021As health systems deploy a variety of digital health tools in the fight against COVID-19, new MedStar Health research published in Nature Partner Journals’ npj Digital Medicine suggests one of the latest technologies may help in unexpected ways—chatbots, or conversational agent software programs that communicate via text and voice.
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January 26, 2021MedStar Health announced launching a two-year telehealth research collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare and Stanford Health Care this month thanks to a nearly $1 million R01 grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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November 23, 2020In late October, MedStar Health surpassed a transformational care milestone of delivering more than 500,000 telehealth sessions during the COVID-19 pandemic, made possible by both a decade of foundational telehealth work and rapid crisis response and scaling starting in March 2020
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October 26, 2020As Emergency Departments (EDs) work to best address unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, a study recently published in The Journal of Emergency Medicine by a multidisciplinary MedStar Health team details how integrating telehealth into the ED workflow can reduce healthcare provider infection risk, personal protective equipment (PPE) use, and ED length of stay (LOS), among other benefits.
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July 27, 2020MedStar Health’s telehealth, human factors, and research teams authored two recently-published research articles to share lessons learned while helping the system navigate telehealth’s exponential growth during the COVID-19 pandemic.