Objective: During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many other health providers needed to rapidly adopt telehealth services to ensure continuity of patient care, without the opportunity to extensively evaluate the usability of the adopted technology. Therefore, this study aims to examine health professionals’ telehealth usabil...

By JING XU, HANADI HAMADI, KRISTEN HICKS-ROOF, ROBERT ZEGLIN, CHLOE BAILEY, MEI ZHAO

Objective To identify, describe, and address gaps in telehealth training at the graduate medical education level Materials and Methods We designed a 12-question survey to capture the telehealth experiences and educational opportunities for residents and fellows in the Minneapolis/St Paul, MN region. Results There were 213 responses from 51 differen...

By MATTHEW SAKUMOTO, RYAN JELINEK, ADITI JOSHI

Abstract  Objective: The Veterans Health Administration has one of the largest remote patient monitoring programs in the United States and is supported by an enterprise-wide infrastructure for providers, clinicians, staff, Veterans, and caregivers. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, presented new challenges: a sudden need to provide large-scale r...

By CATHERINE BUCK, RITA KOBB, RON SANDRETH, LISA ALEXANDER, SHERRON OLLIFF, CARLA ANDERSON, CAROL WESTFALL, LAURIE GRAAFF, JOSEPH GIOVANNUCCI, ASZUR ROLLINS

COVID19’s silver lining in healthcare technology ushered in a massive adoption of virtual care by health systems, clinicians, and patients. In the post pandemic world, as consumer/patient adoption for digital health access exponential continues to grow—Health systems, Insurers, and clinicians all need re-evaluate strategies create large...

By SHAYAN VYAS

Importance:  This three-part study characterizes the widespread implementation of telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, giving us insight into the role of telehealth as we enter a stage of “new normal” healthcare delivery in the U.S. Objective: The COVID-19 Telehealth Impact Study was designed to describe the n...

By AARON BURGMAN, JOHN HALAMKA,, BRIAN ANDERSON, TIM SUTHER, RICARDO ROJAS, JEFFREY MCGINN, DAVID JIANG, LINDSEY SANGARALINGHAM, NATHALIE MCINTOSH, FRANCIS CAMPION, KAREN JONES, PETER SYLVESTER, JENNIFER GOLDSACK, NICK DOUGHERTY, BARBRA RABSON, NILAY SHAH, HELAYNE SWEET, STEPHEN OMMEN

Objective: Reducing antibiotic overuse is a point of emphasis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Despite this, both telemedicine and traditional in-person medical care struggle to meet national guidelines. This study evaluates antibiotic prescribing practices at 98point6, a Seattle-based provider of virtual primary care. This ...

By DAVID MCCUNE, JAMES PELLEGRIN, ANSHUL SACHDEVA, ROXANA CHAM, JESSICA SOLLACCIO, SANDRA GIRAMAHORO COYNE, MARK STEWART