Telehealth

The Medical Society of Delaware entered into its first partnership with a telemedicine company, The News Journal reports.

The trend of shifting financial risk from payers to providers through value-based reimbursement models — accountable care organizations, bundled payments and capitation — is driving healthcare organizations to engage in clinical practices that improve patient health at the population level.

Publix, a Lakeland, Fla.-based grocery store chain, is partnering with Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System to offer retail pharmacies at a number of BayCare's hospitals, as well as walk-in care centers and health screening stations at Publix stores.

Westerly (R.I.) Hospital connected with Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System's InSight Tele-ICU center to implement telemedicine capabilities in its intensive care unit, the hospital announced Sept. 25.

StoneSprings Hospital Center in Dulles, Va., created a telehealth program that enables access to neonatal intensive care unit specialists from Reston (Va.) Hospital Center.

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Thirty-six percent of emergency department patients transferred to another facility for traumatic injury were later discharged without admission, observation or procedures, according to a study published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Intel rolled out an application software platform targeted toward remote care solution developers, the company announced Oct. 19.

A workgroup from the American Academy of Neurology issued a standardized curriculum to train students and physicians on how to provide remote neurology care.

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