Remote Patient Monitoring Effectively Assures Continuity of Care in Asthma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background: Digital health tools to bridge gaps in managing infectious pandemics was a proposition grounded until recently more in the hypothetical than in reality. The last two years have exposed the extraordinary global need for robust digital solutions. Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the ability of remote patient monitor...
By Christopher March, BS, Kimberly Gandy, MD, PhD, Jos Domen, PhD, Sayyed Hamidi, MD, MBA, MPH, Ryan Chen, BS, Paul Barach, MD, MPH, Anthony Szema, MD
Patient Portal Perceptions in an Urban Community Health Center Setting: Insights for Telehealth
Introduction Patient portals are the “front door” to telehealth - online scheduling, video visit links, and digital after visit summaries are often conveyed via the patient portal. Patient portal tools often require similar patient skills and attitudes as telehealth adoption. Analyzing patients’ perceptions and beliefs around this...
By Matthew Sakumoto, Jiancheng Ye, Richard Kalu, Kathryn L Jackson, Sarah Rittner, Timothy Long, Mita Sanghavi Goel, Theresa L Walunas
CHEC-UP: A Digital Intervention to Reduce Disparities in Well-Child and Immunization Completion in Community Health
Objective Well-child visits and immunizations among children in the U.S. declined at the pandemic’s onset and vulnerable populations have been disproportionately affected. This pilot projects tested an innovative mechanism to use chatbots to engage caregivers in evidence-based preventive care for children. Design We used art...
By Nivedita Mohanty
Closing the Loop in AI, EMR and Provider Partnerships: The Key to Improved Population Health Management?
The capabilities of and interest in artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, and more specifically, population health, has grown exponentially over the past decade. The vast volume of digital data or “big data” in the form of images generated by an aging population, with an ever-increasing demand for imaging, amassed by radiology dep...
By Alexis Kurek, David Langholz, Aiesha Ahmed
International Trends in Virtual Care - Views from Brazil, UK, and Singapore
Learn how the market for virtual care has evolved, what the greatest challenges are to expansion and scale, and what can help the development of virtual care solutions in markets around the globe....
By Liz Ashall-Payne, Adam Chee, Jefferson Fernandes, Marcus Osborne
Breaking Barriers of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Digital Health
As the pace of innovation and adoption in healthcare runs at light speed, we now need to consider deployments and operationalizing tech as this lags today. Panelists will share challenges from a case use, data variability factors, how to build tools and clean data to train algorithms, workflows and what the best impact for healthcare is....
By Mohan Lal Tarun, Bradley J. Erickson, Elad Walach
Efficiency & Outcomes of Direct Access to Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal Disorders vs Physician-First Access in the US
Musculoskeletal disorders effect one in every two Americans costing $213 billion a year. They are also the #1 cause of disability worldwide. With advancements in medicine and technology, the cost and disability rates of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) continues to escalate. Speakers will discuss innovative ways to reduce the musculosk...
By Turner Aideen, Ron Donelson, Alice Bell, Heidi Ojha
Meeting Needs of Pediatric Patients in Grades K-12 with Telehealth: A Case Study
Viewers will gain a deep understanding of school setting and challenges schools can meet medical needs. Topics will include FERPA and HIPAA rules and regulations, proper consent for medical care in schools, understanding how enrollment and engagement affects access, reimbursement challenges and engagement with local resources and primary care clini...
By Golomb Josh, Rubin Reyes
How Health Plan Providers and Telehealth Partnerships Advance Care & Scaled Adoption
The session includes obstacles and constraints in technology infrastructure, patient habit and payment models, regulations that encourage adoption of telehealth, the unprecedented imperatives of COVID, access to rural populations and the health conditions addressed. In addition, viewers will glean new market opportunities to capture through telehea...
By Hawayek Joe, Susy Postal, Scott Rissmiller
Successes and Failures: Gaps in Home Health Care
Panelists discuss how telehealth advances increased access, quality of care and metrics to inform enhancements to care delivery in the US. In addition, discussion will include developing strategic partnerships along the continuum of care delivery to increase cost reductions, improved access and improved patient engagement. ...
By Richards Andrew, Sajid Ahmed, Mike Biselli, Vanessa Leigh McLaughlin