THMT 2021 Editors Best Article Award
The study identifies characteristics of the explosive implementation and scale of telehealth use in the first year of COVID-19 pandemic - forever changing traditional healthcare practices and patient access in the United States. To view the article, please visit DOI https://doi.org/10.30953/tmt.v6.280 The award selection is based on the number of o...
By Francis X. Campion, MD
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
COVID-19 Telehealth Impact Study
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
TMT Editorial: The Future of Virtual Health – Near Term Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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
The Coming Revolution: The Healthcare Challenge
The United States spends nearly 17% of its gross domestic product on healthcare,1 almost double that of any other industrialized country,2 and achieves worse outcomes by many measures.3 The U.S. may have the most healthcare in the world, but we do not have the best healthcare. Today, Healthcare in the U.S. is a poor value. If we are going to remain...
By John Halamka