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A team of engineers working with physicians at the University of California San Diego announced the launch of the eCOVID application, which tracks patient status remotely. WHY IT MATTERS The remote patient-monitoring app, which is being tested by patients in a clinical trial at UC San Diego Health, is used in combination with a wearable […]
Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery, helping hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – while also often gaining efficiencies, improving patient and provider satisfaction and saving costs. But as 2020 unfolds, with the COVID-19 pandemic severely testing health system capacity, telehealth is stepping up. […]
Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. And it has become an increasingly important component of healthcare delivery. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible […]
Nearly three quarters of Americans said they are unaware of, or unable to access telehealth services, even though one in 10 said they had previously used telehealth technology. These were among the findings of a J.D. Power survey of 1,000 Americans, which also found patients between the ages of 18 and 24 to have used […]
The American Telemedicine Association has elected Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar to be its next president. He’ll start a year-long term in April 2020. WHY IT MATTERS Kvedar, vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare and a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, has served as ATA president before – from 2004-2005 – and […]
In the early 2000s, the state of Texas was in the midst of a widely recognized, multi-decade crisis from lack of mental health services for people in need. THE PROBLEM Psychiatric facilities were above capacity, leaving patients in mental health emergencies with either jail or emergency rooms as their only options. The ones correctly identified […]
A recent survey of leading institutions revealed that one of the top five reasons healthcare providers (HCPs) have struggled to expand home-based monitoring as part of their population health management programs is an inability to provide technology service and support at scale. IT departments are being asked to take on roles that stretch them beyond […]
While the use of telemedicine systems has been expanding in recent years, especially as more payers, including the government, have begun reimbursing for telehealth services in some instances, the industry is on the verge of more widespread virtual care. But what will that ultimately look like? The next generation of tools will feature enhancements ranging […]