Virtual Health

When Optional Becomes Essential: Virtual Health

By Patrick Sustrich, MS, Director of Retail Healthcare, Sparrow Health System As was true for most persons in the U.S. in March 2020, essentially, the only way to have a visit with a provider at Sparrow Health System was in-person ...
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Virtual Health Experience aligned with Value-Based Care

By Aiesha Ahmed, VP, Population Health & Chief of Neurological Health - Spectrum Health The pandemic has catalyzed the care delivery innovations for the healthcare industry. As many healthcare organizations move towards value-based care, the focus has shifted to patient-centered ...
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Healthcare Technology is Transforming the Industry

By Branden Wilson, National Director, ET3 Virtual Health Operations, Envision Healthcare Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare consumers sought convenient, more affordable ways to access healthcare. The pandemic rapidly accelerated this trend, encouraging healthcare organizations to develop and deploy patient-centered ...
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The Future of Integrated Virtual Care…

It’s not as far off as it seems. In fact, it’s at your fingertips. By Debbie Welle-Powell, Chief Population Health Officer, Essentia Health Digital Care is here to stay. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated change to a new model of care; ...
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Ten Takeaways on Telehealth from the Perspective of a Pandemic

By Dave Smith, Associate VP of Virtual Medicine, UMass Memorial Health Few, if any, of our cohorts in healthcare IT could have foreseen the unveiling of a global outbreak in the early days of 2020. And while my health system ...
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Virtual Care for the Era Ahead: Four Lessons Learned

By Courtney Stevens, Director of Virtual Care, Henry Ford Health System Throughout the pandemic, consumers have changed their expectations for doing business in every aspect of their lives, including banking, shopping, dining, entertainment, worship, and most of all, healthcare. In ...
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Virtual Health – More Than Just Technology

By Kathi Cox, SVP, Integrated Experience, Texas Health Resources Can you think of a health system whose virtual health strategy was not escalated due to the pandemic? Many of us were planning a long-term strategy to introduce telemedicine tools, and ...
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Virtual Health – A Way Forward for Medicine

By Nasim Rezanejad, MD, MS, Physician Solutions Informaticist, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Necessity has been the mother of invention throughout this pandemic, and in the field of healthcare has meant a shift to Virtual Medicine- ...
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Bringing a Human Touch to Evolving Digital Health Care

By Mark Kandrysawtz, VP & Chief Innovation Officer, WellSpan Health Technology permeates every aspect of health care, from the equipment used in surgery to the way physicians take notes during a patient visit. But we now have entered an era ...
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Raziel – Continuous Care Inspired by Human Empathy

Raziel was founded to solve the number one problem in healthcare—episodic care. Episodic care is something most of us as patients have experienced. It entails a familiar drill of coming to the doctor, waiting for our turn in the waiting ...
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Telemedicine is Now Playing a Vital Role in Care Delivery

By Kristin Carlton, Director of Telemedicine Clinical Outreach, Children's Health When the world went into lockdown due to COVID-19 in early 2020, virtual care teams around the globe had to pivot immediately and find a way to continue to deliver ...
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Expanding Virtual Solutions Post-COVID Will Improve Health Care Access

By Justin Gnau, VP & Division CIO, St. Luke’s Health, a CommonSpirit Health facility When the coronavirus struck, innovation became the lifeline for health care providers scrambling to deliver critical treatments and information without risking viral spread. In those first ...
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Telehealth: Leading path towards true patient-centric care

By Pavan Attur, CIO, Hudson Regional Hospital COVID-19 has a significant impact on all industries and mainly healthcare. Many lives were lost and hospitals and healthcare workers had to deal with unprecedented situation dealing with the new virus. This pandemic ...
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How Technology is Changing the Face of Healthcare

By Dave Smith, Associate VP of Virtual Medicine, UMass Memorial Health None of us will forget the chaos that COVID-19 unleashed on our daily lives and routines. For years to come, humanity will study the immeasurable impact on our physical ...
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Health Care Transformation is More Than Virtual Visits

By Lana Adzhigirey, System Director of Virtual Health, CommonSpirit Health Gone are the days when addressing only the clinical needs of the patients is considered good care. Healthcare systems are facing quickly developing consumer and patient expectations resulting from exposure ...
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Drop the wires, but don’t leave the patient behind

By Isaiah Nathaniel, CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health March 11, 2020 is when the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. Since that time, we have witnessed and watched as one of the most resilient sectors ...
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Filling the Age Gap in Virtual Care: Expanding from Pediatric to Adult Markets

By Christopher Raff, Director - Virtual Care LCMC Health, and Dr. Damon Dietrich, Dr. Scott Mackey, Dr. Aaron Martin and Dr. Aaron Thompson As the name suggests, Louisiana Children’s Medical Center Health (LCMC Health) was originally founded by Louisiana’s only ...
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Transforming Health Systems in Response to COVID-19

By Jiban Khuntia, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Information Systems and Health Administration, & Rulon Stacey, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Programs, Health Administration, University of Colorado Denver How can health systems drive economic recovery in a COVID-19 transformed situation? This question puzzled ...
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Maintaining Operations and Enhancing Culture Virtually – Evolutionary Guide

By Cole Elmer, VP of Revenue Management, BJC HealthCare When the unprecedented COVID19 pandemic hit, BJC, like many other health systems, scrambled to take care of their most valuable assets…their people. We rapidly deployed IT resources in an attempt to ...
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How COVID-19 Accelerated Healthcare Innovation

By Matthew Shafiroff, MD CMIO, Clinical Informaticist, and Emergency Medicine Physician, White Plains Hospital A popular saying among emergency medical providers during the height of the COVID-19 was, “where have all the strokes and heart attacks gone?” The answer, of ...
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“Virtual Healthcare” Becomes “Healthcare” in 2020

By James Whitfill MD, SVP, Chief Transformation Officer, HonorHealth For the last several years, telehealth has been the innovation that was right around the corner but just could not seem to escape from its role as a niche solution within ...
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INCREASING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, TELEMEDICINE DESTINED FOR GREATNESS

By Mitchell Fong, Director of Telehealth, Renown Health Since embarking on my graduate research study on Telehealth in 2011, I have dedicated my career to expanding telehealth services in both urban and rural areas of Nevada and California. This has ...
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Focus on infrastructure to support the most disruptive changes to health care; home hospital care

By Andrew Rosenberg MD, Chief Information Officer, Michigan Medicine As we witness the remarkable and unprecedented acceleration of telehealth, our industry must harness emerging technologies to support new models of care. There is no better place to do this than ...
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SOC Telemed- Leading the World of Telemedicine

The past several months shed new light on telemedicine and its possibilities. Hospital systems are now realizing that it’s time to lean into technology innovations as rigidity can endanger the very lives they seek to protect. Telemedicine brings a wide ...
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Remote Patient Monitoring and Impacts with COVID-19

By Tara Matthews, CIO-CISO, Einstein Healthcare Network Prior to COVID-19, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) was primarily used for the chronic care business model in a telehealth strategy. The key use cases were heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as ...
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COVID-19: Protecting Clinicians and Patients Via Technology and Telemedicine

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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Harnessing the power of virtual health across the care continuum

By: Deepthi Bathina, Chief Clinical Product Officer at Humana Meet Alice Alice is a 66-year-old Medicare Advantage member who has Type 2 Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, and Major Depression. Being homebound with very limited mobility, she is fully dependent on a ...
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How to address COVID-19 Pandemic using “All Hands on Deck” approach?

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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Virtual Health is a patient-centered care model used by healthcare providers to interact with their patients remotely. Through this method, patients can receive the care they needed at the comfort of their home and avoid in-person visits to the hospital. It helps to prevent disease transmission between patient-patient, patient-physician, and patient-public. Also, it saves time for the practice and patient, which reduces the costs of the health system.

The concept of virtual health was emerged initially to provide high-quality healthcare services to people who are from underserved communities using technology. This care model was found effective in treating chronic diseases and also during a pandemic situation like COVID-19. This pandemic accelerated the adoption of virtual health delivery models in health systems.

In the Virtual Healthcare model, physicians collect patient data, symptom data, and identify potential treatment options before an actual in-person patient visit to the hospital.