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Telehealth can be an effective alternative for seniors, study shows


Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare this past month found that telehealth can be an effective modality of care for patients over 60, particularly when deployed in the confines of their existing primary care provider.  
When researchers, including a team from the West Health Institute, which focuses on addressing the care needs of seniors, analyzed 313,516 telehealth visits across three healthcare organizations, they found that virtual encounters successfully resolved urgent and non-emergent needs in the vast majority of cases.  
While the median rate of visit resolution for telehealth visits was lower than clinically comparable in-person visits, telehealth was effective in resolving urgent, non-emergent conditions a high percentage of the time, read the study.   ....

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Mount Sinai Health System to Launch Palliative Care at Home, Expanding Partnership With Contessa


Mount Sinai Health System to Launch Palliative Care at Home, Expanding Partnership With Contessa
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NEW YORK (PRWEB)
February 08, 2021
The Mount Sinai Health System announced today that it will expand its partnership with Contessa to launch Palliative Care at Home.
“Palliative Care at Home, which launched this past Spring to help care for seriously ill COVID-19 patients in their homes, will now be available to all of our seriously ill patients and their families,” said R. Sean Morrison, MD, the Ellen and Howard C. Katz Professor and Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the one who initially conceptualized the program. ....

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