Telehealth offered a great opportunity for the clinicians at West Tennessee Healthcare to provide an essential service to the community at large during these unprecedented times. Our telehealth footprint continues to enlarge daily with more clinicians and specialties becoming comfortable with the workflows and technology. The program is described h...

By CLAUDE J. PIRTLE, ANNA TETLETON-BURNS, ASHLEY WEBB, SCOTT KRODEL

This article presents an application of servant leadership to respond to the global pandemic, COVID-19.  The application of servant leadership is applied to the telehealth environment and healthcare delivery....

By ALLISON EAGEN

Objective: As the number of older adults living in the United States grows, the gap between the capacity of home-based primary care (HBPC) services and the community demand will continue to widen. Older adults, living longer with mobility difficulties and multiple chronic medical conditions, often prefer to age in place, and new models of care are ...

By KAREN A. ABRASHKIN, A. CAMILLE MCBRIDE, JILL C. SLABODA, MICHAEL KURLIAND, AMPARO ABEL-BEY, ATIKA TURKISTANI, KAYLA FINUF, RENEE PEKMAZARIS

Methods: A survey was developed and sent to patients participating in a pediatric teleurology program at an academic medical center. This survey evaluated the patient’s history using this telemedicine platform, satisfaction with various aspects of the application as well as associated details about transportation and costs of traditional in-p...

By NIKKA KHORSANDI, BRENDON GROS, YU-WEN CHIU, AARON D. MARTIN

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease with 2.8 million cases and 480,000 deaths each year in India. The city of Indore alone with a population of 3.5 million had 7,839 identified TB cases in 2017. However, about two to three thousand additional cases remain unidentified per district officials. The unidentified cases lead to an ende...

By WEIJIA ZHANG, MARIAM E. DOGAR, MONIKA JAIN, EDWIN RODRIGES, SANGEETA PATHAK, SALIL BHARGAVA, AMAR GUPTA, MANOJ JAIN

Telehealth has received a lot of attention over the past few months as healthcare providers necessarily shifted. This was initiated by the need to decrease virus exposure and PPE usage, and then further enabled by pro-telehealth reimbursement and regulatory changes. What lessons were learned that help us envision what the future might look like ove...

By LYLE BERKOWITZ, STEVE OMMEN, JOHN HALAMKA