Introduction: With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the utilization of telemedicine now offered an alternative diagnostic and treatment resource to providers in many areas of medicine including oncology and cancer genetics. This care option paired with genetic testing labs’ ability to send saliva-based DNA collection kits to patien...

By ALLISON JAY, HANNAH KELLEY, SUSAN M. JAY

Among its many side effects, the COVID-19 pandemic left several positive results. This article talks about one of the main positive effects in the post-pandemic period: the adoption of telemedicine and telehealth, two related disciplines that were already present in several Latin American countries, but which in the past two years came to be a solu...

By DANIELA CHUEKE

Background: Reducing Length of Stay (LOS) is an important way for hospitals to improve emergency department (ED) costs and outcomes. Psychiatric patients represent a challenge to reducing LOS as the scarcity of psychiatric specialists leads to longer LOS. Previous literature describes the unique solutions different hospitals have employed across th...

By JACQUELINE SANDLING, KATHLEEN CARROTHERS, DAVID SVEC

Background: The literature supporting telehealth management is growing accelerated by the COVID-pandemic. We hypothesize that there are risks of adverse events associated with telehealth interventions.
 Methods: A review of PubMed (including MEDLINE), Embase, ISI (Web of Science), VHL/GHL, Scopus, Science Direct, and PsycINFO was conducted for...

By FIDELIA CASCINI, ANA PANTOVIC, YAZAN AL-AJLOUNI, OMAR AL TA'ANI, GIOVANNA FAILLA, ANDRIY MELNYK, PAUL BARACH, WALTER RICCIARDI

BACKGROUND:  Access to high-quality cancer care in the United States remains a challenge in part due to a geographic mismatch between patients with cancers and the oncologic specialists best able to serve them. There is therefore an urgent need to develop communications strategies that allow oncologists to determine which patients might benefi...

By DAVID SHALOWITZ, BRYAN ARKWRIGHT, EMILY BUNCE

Objective: With the explosion in the use of telehealth technologies, it is essential to address the challenges in global telehealth inequity in order to create a path to healthcare equality. To this end, this research paper focuses on investigating telehealth as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on healthcare inequality, telehealth...

By MARIA PALOMBINI, TIFFANY VEREEN, JAHNAHN TAGHIANI, TANVI CHITRE

Background: The literature supporting telehealth management is growing accelerated by the COVID-pandemic. We hypothesize that there are risks of adverse events associated with telehealth interventions. Methods: A review of PubMed (including MEDLINE), Embase, ISI (Web of Science), VHL/GHL, Scopus, Science Direct, and PsycINFO was conducte...

By FIDELIA CASCINI, ANA PANTOVIC, YAZAN A. AL-AJLOUNI, OMAR AL-TA’ANI, GIOVANNA FAILLA, ANDRIY MELNYK, PAUL BARACH, WALTER RICCIARDI