Medical Boards: Impact of Growing Virtual Care and Need for Integrated Approach to Enhance Quality and Safety
The increased amount of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenge of providing appropriate medical board oversight to ensure proper quality of care delivery and safety of patients. This is partly due to the conventional model of each state medical board (SMB) holding responsibility for medical standards and oversight o...
By Amar Gupta, John Halamka, Lauren Park, Naomi Kim, Veda Donthireddy, Mariam Dogar, Dinesh Patel
Fraud and Credentialing in Telehealth and Medicine
This panel presents a candid discussion on laws regulating audio-only services, cross-state licensing and telehealth payment parity. ...
By Gupta Amar, Gary Cantrell, Humayun J. Chaudhry
Medicare Telehealth Pre and Post-COVID-19
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic led to temporary relaxations for telehealth with respect to physician licensure, geographic location, and eligible sites for reimbursement. Earlier policies had impacted the rate of adoption of telehealth and retarded the ability to derive full benefits related to cost, access to care, and quality of care. This aspect...
By Sophia Albanese, Amar Gupta, Ilina Shah, Joanna Mitri
Sixteenth International Conference of Telemedicine Society of India: Experiences and Lessons Learnt for Evolving Transformation at a Global Level
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By Amar Gupta
Predictions for Telehealth in 2021: We Cannot Wait for It!
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By Lyle Berkowitz, Shayan Vyas, Igor O. Korolev, Paul De Raeve, Prabhakaran Dorairaj, Sergio Pillon, Matthew Sakumoto, Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, Liz Ashall-Payne, Mitch B. Parker, Brendan Smith, Allison Viola, Rafael J. Grossmann, Srikanth Velamakanni, Chris Roberts, Amar Gupta, John D. Halamka
Predictive Modeling for Telemedicine Service Demand
Introduction: Emergency teleneurology care has grown in magnitude, impact, and validation. Stroke is a leading cause of death in the US and the timely treatment of stroke results in better outcomes for patients. Teleneurology provides evidence-based care to patients even when a board-certified neurologist is not physically on site. Determining...
By Agni Kumar, Nancy Hung, Yuhan Wu, Robyn Baek, Amar Gupta
Predictions for Telehealth in 2020: Will This be the Takeoff Year?
Introduction by Amar Gupta In order to place predictions for telehealth in proper perspective, consider that like all new industries, telehealth is characterized by disparate ideas developed by different people, often for the same medical specialty and/or medicine-related activity. Over time, these ideas must coalesce to provide growth and economi...
By Amar Gupta, Mike Baird, Shayan Vyas, Joel Reich, Stephanie Zawada, Sumit Nagpal, Oren J. Mechanic
Feasibility and Effectiveness of Mobile App for Active Case Finding for Tuberculosis in India
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
Innovative Telemedicine Approaches in Different Countries: Opportunity for Adoption, Leveraging, and Scaling-Up
In the age of digitization, a growing percentage of services are becoming available online, and this trend is affecting healthcare too. As evolving technology creates more avenues for physicians to deliver affordable and instant care to their patients, there has been a sharp increase in the number of telemedicine implementations across the world.1 ...
By Amar Gupta, Mariam E. Dogar, Emily Sijin Zhai, Pooja Singla, Tooba Shahid, Hilal Nuriye Yildirim, Sabrina Romero, Shaurya Singh