Telemedicine

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 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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