Introducing mHealth in resource-poor communities is not without technical, financial, and infrastructural challenges. Even today, little is known about the process of implementing sustainable mHealth services in these regions. The Broadband/Bandwidth, Education/Environment, Leadership, & Technology (BELT) framework helps guide stakeholders in i...

By ANTONIA ARNAERT, NORMA PONZONI, HAMIDOU SANOU, NOUFOU GUSTAVE NANA

The healthcare industry is bracing for a predicted shortage of primary care physicians at a time when the telehealth industry is predicted to explode. Advance practice registered nurses (APRNs), who combine clinical expertise with an added emphasis on disease prevention and health management, have long been providing high-quality healthcare in the ...

By KELLI M. GARBER, KATHERINE E. CHIKE-HARRIS

Background: Direct-to-consumer (DTC) virtual urgent care (VUC) visits are increasingly popular across both for-profit and nonprofit healthcare systems; however, few peer-reviewed studies have described the ecology of a VUC program. Design/Setting: In this retrospective cohort study, patients (N = 2,216) received care through a VUC platform of...

By CHRISTOPHER B. DAVIS, DICKSON CHEUNG, RICHARD KLASCO, KELLY BOOKMAN, SEAN S. MICHAEL, RICHARD ZANE, JENNIFER WILER

Successful telehealth business models are a topic of regular discussion in the healthcare industry, and the financial details of telehealth programs, initiatives, and companies are central to program viability and sustainability. Claims and total payments toward telehealth services are rapidly increasing each year; therefore, it is becoming imperat...

By BRYAN T. ARKWRIGHT, MONICA LESLIE, MORGAN LIGHT

This pilot program tested the feasibility of connecting patients receiving medical care from 98point6 (a virtual healthcare platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver primary care through a text-based, smartphone interface) with the 2Morrow app (a behavioral health platform that utilizes acceptance commitment th...

By DAVID MCCUNE, ERIN GRAF, JO MASTERSON, AMANDA CUDA

The practice of medicine has advanced significantly from the bloodletting of the 18th century to a surgeon operating remotely through a robot from hundreds of miles away.1 Over the past decade, technology, and particularly telehealth, has become increasingly widespread in global health care delivery.2,3 Telehealth is a general term that describes t...

By CLAUDE J. PIRTLE, KATHRYN L. PAYNE, BRIAN C. DROLET

Increased availability of telehealth, along with patient satisfaction with the modality and financial incentives, makes peritoneal dialysis (PD) an excellent option for qualifying patients living in rural communities. Telemedicine has the potential to radically change the delivery of dialysis care by facilitating the ability of these patients to in...

By ALEXANDER BRAUER, SANA WAHEED

Objectives: The aims of this quality improvement project were twofold: Phase 1: conduct a needs assessment study for home-based telebehavioral medicine (H-TBM) among medically complex patients living in rural areas seeking care at an academic medical center (AMC) in a Behavioral Medicine Clinic, and Phase 2: evaluate the feasibility of a pilot impl...

By LILLIAN M. CHRISTON, JENNIFER CORRELL, WENDY BALLIET, EVA R. SERBER, SHARLENE WEDIN, REBECCA KILPATRICK, LAUREN HOLLAND-CARTER, STACEY MAURER, JIMMY MCELLIGOTT, KELLY BARTH, JEFFREY J. BORCKARDT

Data aggregation is important at every stage of population health management. A surprisingly simple (and often overlooked) way healthcare teams can collect data and gain the insights they need to successfully execute population health plans is to leverage healthcare surveys like health risk assessment surveys, medication adherence surveys, remote h...

By ALLISON M. HART

The Second Annual Innovation Ignition Competition 2018 was held during the Converge2Xcelerate (ConV2X) Conference in New York City. The objective of the conference was to accelerate healthcare’s pragmatic adoption of new technology by informing, inspiring, and debating the role and value of technology innovation for health systems, health wor...

By JOHN RUSSO

The sheer volume of telehealth codes reimbursed continues to grow, as all payers (federal, state, and private) approve and incorporate new policies and codes. Despite additional codes and friendlier policies, organizations seeking to be paid for telehealth still struggle with interpreting and utilizing automated processes to maximize telehealth rev...

By MONICA LESLIE NASH, BRYAN T. ARKWRIGHT