I few years ago, I coined the term, “Medicine Without Walls”1 to describe our future healthcare delivery system—an environment where patient and healthcare practitioner are unencumbered by physical location or limitations in access points due to human resource restrictions, where medical information is transferred not only between...

By PRENTICE A. TOM

The electronic medical record (EMR) is significantly more than a digitalized format for converting patient data into easily stored and recalled information. Today, each patient’s EMR is a vast, growing accumulation of health data sourced from physicians and professional medical devices. And, according to HIPAA, it is the absolute property of ...

By M. TED BRAID

Methods: A project conducted from February 2013 to June 2014 investigated the adoption of telemedicine services among purchasers of addiction treatment in five states and one county. The project assessed purchasers’ interest in and perceived facilitators and barriers to implementing one or more of the following telemedicine modalities: teleph...

By TODD MOLFENTER, MIKE BOYLE, DON HOLLOWAY, JANET ZWICK

Background: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a complex and common medical condition requiring a multidisciplinary management approach, including control of multiple parameters to delay progression of the disease. Telehealth has been used for monitoring chronic conditions and can be used for managing chronic kidney disease. Materials and Methods: Pat...

By ABEERA MANSUR

Telemedicine and blockchain technology share a core philosophy of empowering the individual. Blockchain solutions that focus on empowering patients and enhancing the workflows for the providers who treat them continue to make big headlines, as does enterprise investment and adoption of telehealth. Both models focus on direct-to-consumer health serv...

By BRENNAN BENNETT

“Touch,” the ability to connect at a level relevant to those we try to serve, is as important (arguably more important) than deploying the high-level technology our best minds develop. I was treated to an example of this during my visit to Sony Labs several weeks ago to discuss how we might collaborate to accelerate implementation of te...

By DOUGLAS SHINSATO

No abstract available. Editor’s note: On March 16th and 17th, 2017, Telehealth and Medicine Today convened a national conference of opinion leaders to discuss and debate “Technologies and Tactics Transforming Long-term Care.” What follows is an interview with Gary German, who is President of Nonnatech, a digital he...

By GARY GERMAN