Healthcare IT News January 19, 2022
A big part of the effort by the Brooklyn academic medical center is telemedicine, which was boosted by a $1 million grant from the FCC.
Maimonides Medical Center is an academic medical center located in Brooklyn, New York. It is Brooklyn’s largest hospital, with more than 600 beds, 6,500 staff, 43,000 annual inpatient discharges and 600,000 annual outpatient encounters.
It is Brooklyn’s tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State’s first health information exchanges.
THE PROBLEM
In 2018, Maimonides’ leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in...
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