Virtual Health
Virtual Health is a patient-centered care model used by healthcare providers to interact with their patients remotely. Patients can receive the care they needed at the comfort of their home and avoid in-person visits to the hospital.
In the virtual care model, physicians collect patient data, symptom data, and identify potential treatment options before an actual in-person patient visit to the hospital. To know more, read our Virtual Health special issue.
Top Telemedicine Employers: Where to Find the Best Jobs in Virtual Healthcare
The telemedicine industry is a growing sector as more workers eye a work-from-home setup while helping others. Its progression boosts the demand for skilled professionals and healthcare technology to enhance the patient experience. Learn about the best company to work ...
Revolutionizing Nursing: The Rise of Virtual Care
By Gail M. Vozzella, SVP and Chief Nurse Executive, Houston Methodist Virtual nursing is a forward-thinking approach where nurses work remotely from the point of care (POC), partnering with bedside teams to handle various tasks. It leverages advanced technologies to ...
Carle Health Brings Technology and Virtual Inpatient Nursing to Allow for More Intentional Bedside Care
By Jill Dodaro, VP and CNO, Carle Health - Greater Peoria The healthcare landscape is constantly evolving, with technological advancements offering opportunities to improve patient care and streamline workflows. At Carle Health, we’ve stepped into these opportunities to find modern ...
The Future of Healthcare: Pros and Cons of Virtual Nursing
By Dr. Melinda S. Kidder, CNO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services As the world continues to embrace digital transformations, healthcare stands at the forefront of this evolution. One of the most intriguing developments in recent years is virtual ...
From Vital Signs to Virtual Care: The Evolution of Remote Patient Monitoring in Modern Healthcare
By Dr. Colleen Morley, Associate Chief Clinical Operations Officer-Continuum of Care, UI Health When I first started working on reducing readmissions in acute care, remote patient monitoring (RPM) was just beginning to take off. At that time, it was primarily ...
The Evolution of Virtual Health Using RPM and Point-of-care (POC) Technology
By Iris Berman, VP of Operations, Center for Virtual Health, Northwell Health Personalized medicine is transforming healthcare for some by tailoring treatments to individual patients based on their unique genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Since the pandemic, virtual care has ...
Do AI Diagnostics have a role in telemedicine? What does this mean for healthcare equity?
By Jawad N. Saleh, Chief Pharmacy Officer and AVP Clinical Operations, Hospital for Special Surgery AI-powered diagnostic tools have revolutionized healthcare across multiple domains. In medical imaging analysis, AI algorithms enhance radiologists' ability to detect abnormalities in X-rays, CT scans, ...
Leveraging Tele-Rehabilitation to Improve Public Health Outreach
By Preet Kukreja, Director, Population Health Initiatives, St. John's Episcopal Hospital and Kinshuk Saxena, Lead - Commercialization Strategy and Operations, Novartis Kinshuk Saxena Utilizing AI and Wearable Technology to Democratize Access to Physical Therapy in Underserved Populations through Tele-Rehabilitation When ...
Redefining Telemedicine in the Age of Resource Limitation
By Matthew Quinn, Science Director, Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) In March 2020, the world was about to experience an unprecedented surge in the need for critical care. While COVID-19 strained the healthcare capacity of communities across the ...
Telehealth Competency: Not a Skill But a Transformative Mindset
By Kathy H. Wibberly, Ph.D., Director, Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth, University of Virginia School of Medicine The healthcare industry has undergone a profound transformation, driven by technological advancements and changing patient needs. One of ...
Coordination is Key to Optimize Virtual Healthcare Services and Improve Access to Care
By Rhonda Bartlett, VP of Consumer Experience and Access, NewYork-Presbyterian Advocating for our patients is at the heart of everything we do at NewYork-Presbyterian. From my own experience as an ICU nurse for over ten years, then working in digital ...
Integrating Virtual and In-Person HealthCare will improve Patient Outcomes
By San Banerjee, Head Product Development - Health Services, CVS Health COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine across healthcare enterprises, creating challenges for clinicians trying to manage diverse health conditions while supporting care across both virtual and physical care ...
The Need and Outcome of a Virtual Nursing Program
By Jonathan Witenko, System Director of Virtual Health and Telemedicine, Lee Health Anne became a nurse even after promising to never follow in her mother’s footsteps. She treated each patient like they were her own son or daughter, easing their ...
The University of Kansas Health System Addressing Care Gaps with Telehealth
By Jason Grundstrom, Executive Director of Continuum of Care, The University of Kansas Health System The University of Kansas Health System, along with the University of Kansas, has been a pioneer in telemedicine for more than thirty years. In the ...
The Role of Telemedicine in Healthcare and its Transformative Impact on the Industry
By Vineela Yannamreddy, CIO, United Medical Center Telemedicine emerged as a tool to provide basic primary care services to rural/remote locations by conducting virtual visits via videoconference or a phone call. Before the onset of a global pandemic, the utilization ...
Recent Trends in Telehealth and Virtual Care Program Offerings
By Gerard Frunzi, Director of Virtual Care, Centura Health The past few years have been a constant roller coaster for those in Telehealth. There have been significant changes in the regulatory environment, the corporate makeup of the industry, provider interest, ...
Emergence Teleradiology-Diagnostics that Make Answering Patients’ Questions Easier
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a common disruptive force globally, that also brought into the forefront many innovations and trends that elevate the quality and access to healthcare. Battling the massive shortage of radiologists in the United States over the ...
The Potential and Pitfalls of Virtual Care
By Mitchell Fong, VP Virtual Care, Renown Health Virtual care is the intersection of telemedicine, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and analytics that drives necessary care for patients. The potential impact of virtual care is immense that not only impact the ...
Current trends in radiology and how physicians and health systems plan to adapt
By Matthew J. Miller, Associate Residency Program Director, Allegheny Health Network Continued demand for telemedicine and remote learning. When medical historians look back on this time, the easy connection between the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of telemedicine and remote ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Rapid Evolution of Cognitive & Procedural Telehealth
By Lee David Milligan, SVP & CIO, Asante Health System The concept of cognitive Telehealth has been around for many years. It’s convenient, fast and when accomplished without technical snags, is quite efficient. If we broaden our definition to include ...
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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Role of Telemedicine in the Healthcare Industry
By Emmanuel Opati, MBA, MHA, PMP, Assistant Administrative Director, Office of Telemedicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine To be blunt, there is no future of healthcare without telemedicine. Until March 2020, telemedicine was on the periphery of healthcare in the US. Many ...
Role of emerging technologies in the healthcare industry
By Aaron Young, CIO, Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center COVID-19 accelerated the need for the healthcare industry to adopt and adapt emerging technologies. During the pandemic, a brick and mortar facility became significantly less important than technology solutions that allow ...
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 ...
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- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Telehealth: An Evolution in Approach and Mindset
By Frank D. Sites, MHA, BSN, RN, VP of Connected Care Operations, Jefferson Health At Jefferson Health, our vision for a long time has been to blend traditional healthcare with technology to promote and create access. We spoke boldly about ...
Health Equity and Telehealth
By Raymond Lowe, SVP/ CIO, AltaMed Health Services Before 2020 there had been forward-thinking discussions on the consumerism of medicine, but the pandemic forced providers to focus on patient-centric care through telehealth, chatbots, remote consults, remote patient monitoring, and rich ...