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Logicalis Healthcare Solutions Asks CIOs: What Is Your Telehealth Strategy Missing?NEW YORK, May 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Telehealth has long been a standalone endeavor for many healthcare organizations and something that has been kept completely separate from discussions about electronic health record (EHR) optimization. But according to Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, the healthcare-focused arm of Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (www.us.logicalis.com), there is a significant – and often overlooked – interrelationship between telehealth, imaging, and EHR optimization that healthcare IT pros need to address when striving to attain a more mature, clinically-integrated, program-based telehealth solution. "At Logicalis, we talk to a lot of healthcare CIOs and IT professionals. And while the clear majority are thinking about and planning ways to optimize the significant investments their organizations have made in electronic health record systems, they know they're missing some pieces of the puzzle," says Ed Simcox, Healthcare Practice Leader, Logicalis Healthcare Solutions. "Telehealth is one of those missing links. What few people are talking about today is the correlation between telehealth, smart image retention practices, and the optimization strategies that can maximize their returns on EHR investments. Making telehealth a more integral part of their clinicians' daily workflow, capturing and marrying telehealth images to each patient's electronic health record, and making those images more easily referenceable in the EHR so they can be accessed as needed and shared across a patient's entire care team will allow the organization to deliver a better and more affordable level of care." Five Critical Telehealth Considerations
Imagine an instance in which an ophthalmology practice is providing telehealth consultations to smaller community hospitals about diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic patients need to be assessed for retinopathy annually. Rather than visiting the ophthalmologist in person, the patient's primary care physician acquires ophthalmic images using a device connected to his cell phone, then transfers the images to an ophthalmologist for assessment. The ophthalmologist then receives the images and renders his opinion. Who stores the images? Both doctors? And how are they stored – on a thumb drive? A server? If they aren't married to the patient's EHR, the images won't be available for year-to-year comparisons, something which provides caregivers with a much more robust picture of a patient's health and any changes taking place over time. Perhaps the diabetic patient's endocrinologist would also like to see the images. To enable this kind of effective image sharing, each practice needs a logical way to retain and easily retrieve the images as well as each clinician's notes and opinions to provide a better continuum of care. This is only one example of many illustrating the "missing link" between effective telehealth strategies and EHR optimization. Want to Learn More?
About Logicalis Our customers cross industries and geographical regions; our focus is to engage in the dynamics of our customers' vertical markets including financial services, TMT (telecommunications, media and technology), education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, and to apply the skills of our 4,000 employees in modernizing key digital pillars, data center and cloud services, security and network infrastructure, workspace communications and collaboration, data and information strategies, and IT operation modernization. We are the advocates for our customers for some of the world's leading technology companies including Cisco, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and ServiceNow. The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of over $1.5 billion from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa. It is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the AIM market of the LSE, with revenues of over $6.5 billion. For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com. Business and technology working as one Media Contacts: Arthur Germain, Communication Strategy Group for Logicalis US
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