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United Methodist Communities has early successes with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” The other challenge United Methodist faced was facilitating specialty and primary care physician visits for residents. The lockdown and quarantine restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic put a significant burden on residents who required routine specialty and primary care. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

JLL points out that surgery centers are performing more complex procedures today, and complexity will continue to grow surgicenters’ procedure lists over the next decade — moving more complex care closer to peoples’ homes.

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How telehealth can improve efficiency and increase revenue

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A physician leader at a renowned medical group confided in me that he receives multiple personal text messages every week from friends and family asking for his advice on medical issues and courses of treatment. Healthcare providers need to enable this type of digital-first interaction and care navigation in their telehealth platforms.

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UVA Health System expands telehealth offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, as Medicare now covers a broad range of virtual care models,” Rehuban continued.

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Meet Telemedicine Superstar Gigi Sorenson

GlobalMed

Before joining GlobalMed, she was the System Director of Telehealth & Community Connected Care for Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) in Flagstaff, Arizona. “I Sorenson had gone through a crash course in telemedicine and emerged with considerable expertise. Baptism by Fire. Saving Lives with Telemedicine.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" The services deployed included video visits in specialty and primary care, remote monitoring of patients with chronic conditions that required medical oversight, and extending the reach of Grady Health's Mobile Integrated Health program with the addition of mobile telehealth kits. " Rapidly standing up a call center.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

Mend

Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent. But those calls were largely ignored.