Emergency Medical Technicians’ Perspectives on a Telehealth Facilitator Role to Expand Home-Based Primary Care: Pilot Study Resultss
Objective: A growing body of literature supports telehealth-enabled emergency medical services (EMS) personnel acting in expanded roles in the pre-hospital setting. While paramedic-based community programs have shown great promise, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), who make up a larger percentage of the total number of nationally certified EMS ...
Telehealth and Medicine Today 2022 Market Predictions
Each year, Telehealth and Medicine Today reaches out to journal board members, annual ConV2X Symposium speakers, and ecosystem subject matter experts to share their views and perspectives for the near term in the telehealth and virtual care marketplace. This article presents insights into where authors anticipate market opportunities and gaps that ...
By Tory Cenaj, Lisa M. Lavin, Bradley J. Erickson, Rami Farraj, Florian Otto, William J. Hercules, Nir Shalom, Eyal Zimlichman, Shayan Vyas, Russell Glass, Andrew C. Philip
Business Critical Solutions to Achieve Competitive Cyber Supremacy through Regulation and Policy
Panelists discuss the need for governance during the development and adoption of blockchain solutions, considerations when evaluating current and proposed legislation, recommendations for policymakers developing governance expectations and the current risks and limitations to policy development regarding industry adoption....
By Hunter Joyce, Paul Browne, Rick McElroy, Robert Wood
Enhancing Quality of Healthcare and Patient Safety: Oversight of Physician Assistants, Nurses, and Pharmacists in Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
In the age of digitization, telemedicine services are utilized more than ever, and this trend affects healthcare as well. Although the utilization of technology serves as a benefit in allowing more access to care, COVID-19 has identified some of the weaknesses and discrepancies of the system. The increase in usage of technology has shed light on an...
By Lauren W Park, Dr. Amar Gupta
Home Health Business Critical Regulation and Policy
A candid discussion including perspectives on the CONNECT for Health Act, Chose Home Care Act patient choice bill, HETS Act, Medicare Advantage, workforce issues and how Medicare is operating as a “dis-service” for telehealth....
By Dombi Bill, Dan Lowenstein, Carol Yarbrough
Introduction and Industry Commentary
Journal publisher and ConV2X curator shares vision and insights for scientific communications and scholarly publishing along with market predictions for the digital health and blockchain in healthcare emeging markets and research fields....
By Cenaj Tory
Telehealth and Medicine Today 2020 Editors Best Article Award
Announced during the Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT) ConV2X 2021 Symposium themed “Blueprint for a New Digital Health Era,” broadcast November 10, 2021, the winning article is titled: "Role of Telemedicine in Healthcare During COVID-19 Pandemic in Developing Countries," authored by Muhammad Abdul Kadir, PhD, Department of Biomedica...
By Abdul Kadir Muhammad, Lyle Berkowitz
Conducting a Global Quadruple Aim Thematic Analysis of Telemedicine Performance in Rural Indigenous Populations and Evidence-Based Recommendations for Improvement
As telehealth is a growing form of healthcare delivery across the world, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s impact on patient populations particularly in aboriginal and rural communities boasts many questions. As the health disparities between aboriginal groups living in rural areas on reserves and the rest of the Canadian demogra...
By Hussain Naqvi
Getting Beyond Parity: Telehealth as a Best Practice in Health Equity
The global pandemic spurred a rapid uptake of telehealth for nearly all health care providers and has permanently changed how health care is delivered. At present, providers and insurers are grappling with how to balance telehealth and in person care, focusing discussions around reimbursement models and logistical considerations. In this article, t...
By Andrew Philip, Mary Ford, Jordan Goldberg
Multidisciplinary Team in Ambulatory Management of Diabetes Mellitus Using Telehealth Among a Sample of Medicaid Patients
Objectives: Effective treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus requires a multidisciplinary approach. Our study provided telemedicine healthcare delivery, using a model of collaborative drug therapy management (CDTM) protocol incorporating medical nutrition therapy (MNT) interventions by Dietitians and Pharmacists. Methods:&n...
By Nicole Henley, Dorothy Chen-Maynard, Erin Pablo-Bandong