Telemedicine

By Javier Parra, M.D., Gastroenterologist, Gastro Health The COVID-19 pandemic is the driving force of many modifications, temporary and permanent, which have ultimately changed the way we deliver health care outside of an office setting. As the pandemic evolved, we ...
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By David A. Fletcher, MBA, Associate Vice President Center for Telehealth, Geisinger The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a sea change in the telehealth industry and brought about changes in the delivery of care that had been predicted to require ...
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By Kristin Darby, CIO, Envision Healthcare We are in a dynamic and transformational time worldwide as we battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Envision Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest facility-based care provider groups, is on the front lines of the crisis ...
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By Morgan Waller, Director of Telemedicine, Children`s Mercy Don’t get me wrong, Direct to Consumer (DTC) telemedicine (TM) is valuable in ways we haven’t even fully discovered. In the last few years, however, DTC platforms/companies have hit the market like ...
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By Anshul Pande, VP & CTO, Stanford Children's Health COVID 19 has swept through the world and affected all of us. It has profoundly changed how we live, work, communicate, and interact. Healthcare has been at the center of this ...
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Telehealth has been a critical, though underused, element of the healthcare ecosystem for decades, championed by early adopters, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, since the late 1960s. However, when news of a pandemic began to hit the international ...
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By Stacey Johnston, MD VP & CMIO, Baptist Health During a time of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations must rely on an “All Hands on Deck” approach. However, what has this meant for those that support their ...
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By Jennifer D'Angelo, CIO/SVP, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center Responsive information technology quickly became a pivotal weapon in New Jersey’s largest hospital, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center’s, COVID-19 arsenal. Bergen New Bridge in Paramus, New Jersey has 1,070 beds. It ...
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By: Katherine Lusk, MHSM, RHIA, FAHIMA, Chief Health Information Management & Exchange Officer at Children's Health in Dallas Telehealth has been growing in practice for years, with the COVID-19 pandemic and its required social distancing accelerating adoption. There are many ...
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By Kathleen Frisbee, Executive Director, Connected Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs With the proliferation of smart devices, it’s no surprise that Veterans have begun to turn to consumer products and apps to help monitor their own health using their ...
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By Kevin M. Curtis, MD, MS, Medical Director & Mary L. Lowry, MBA, Administrative Director, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center The Problem. The increasing shortage of healthcare professionals in the U.S. presents a challenge for many healthcare organizations, especially those in rural ...
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By Ray Lowe, SVP/CIO at AltaMed Health Services In February 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak wasn’t well understood as news reports from Wuhan, China continued to develop. I recall my CMIO and I were getting ready for HIMSS, which was scheduled ...
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By Linda Branagan, Ph.D. Director Telehealth Programs at University of California, San Francisco Telehealth has always been a naturally in the treatment of infectious diseases. It is no surprise that in the guidance to help healthcare providers prepare for the ...
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By Mark Lo, MD, MS, Medical Director, Telehealth and Digital Health, Seattle Children's I was walking out of the emergency department after a busy shift the other day, and I passed a staff member who was taking her lunch break ...
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By Mark Weisman, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Information Officer at Peninsula Regional Health System For years telehealth has been this exciting, disruptive technology that the majority of health systems had minimal interest in pursuing. Adoption was slow due to regulatory ...
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By Brendan McNamara, CEO, Sound Physicians With an aging population and health care payers’ increasing focus on the quality and cost of post-acute care pressuring Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to reduce hospital readmissions, Sound Physicians (Sound) is using telemedicine as ...
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By Irfan Kasumovic, Director of Telehealth, University of Maryland Medical System It’s easy to get excited about new technologies and shiny gadgets that promise to solve challenging problems or provide better ways of delivering patient care. New technologies also often ...
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By Mark Crandall, Chief Information Officer, Consulate Health Care At the nexus of Healthcare and Technology emerges solutions aimed to improve patient outcomes and satisfaction, while making the jobs of clinicians safer and more effective. The primary driver of these ...
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By Dr. R. A. Ramanujuan, MD Physician, Diabetic Care Associates, and Dr. Anu Banerjee, PhD, MS MHM, Chief Quality and Innovation Officer, Arnot Health M-health is a platform for the rapid exchange of abundant information about patient medical records. Accomplishing ...
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By Meagan F. Moyer, MPH, RDN, LD and Gregory J. Esper, MD, MBA, Emory Healthcare Why Measure Outcomes of Success? The American Telemedicine Association defines telemedicine (and its closely associated term, telehealth) as the “use of medical information exchanged from ...
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By Karl Macklin, Director, Access & Engagement, Greenville Health System Various publications have reported that the average American spends one day (24 hours) online each week. Therefore, 14 percent of your life, you are on the internet. Searching for everything ...
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By Molly Menton, Director, Clinical Delivery, Evolent Health Technology has changed our lives in every imaginable way. Every industry, every sector, and every consumer has been irrevocably changed by the digital revolution. 50 years ago, it would have been only ...
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By Adam Glasofer, MD, MSHI, Associate Medical Director of Informatics, Virtua Health One can imagine early uses of the telephone involving discussions about patient care between hospitals or a small town contacting a doctor in the city about a patient ...
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By Til Jolly, MD, FACEP, CMO, SOC Telemed The emergency department is, for better or worse, the front door to the hospital. With this responsibility as a first line of defense against any number of incoming cases, the department needs ...
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By Bridget Gallagher, VP, Americare I have an Aunt, who is 86 years old and provides aide services 4- 5 hours a day to a 94-year-old woman living in her neighborhood. The 94-year-old, who I will call Ethel, is what ...
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