Introduction - The COVID 19 pandemic led to restrictions on the conventional ways of healthcare delivery. Telemedicine provided a viable solution that was in line with the social distancing policies imposed to minimize disease transmission. This demanded physicians adapt to new ways of healthcare delivery. We surveyed geneticists across the country...

By Soumiya Ravi, Aaina Kochhar, Radhika Dhamija

Abstract  Objective: The Veterans Health Administration has one of the largest remote patient monitoring programs in the United States and is supported by an enterprise-wide infrastructure for providers, clinicians, staff, Veterans, and caregivers. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, presented new challenges: a sudden need to provide large-scale r...

By Catherine Buck, Rita Kobb, Ron Sandreth, Lisa Alexander, Sherron Olliff, Carla Anderson, Carol Westfall, Laurie Graaff, Joseph Giovannucci, Aszur Rollins

Rehabilitation is a major component of health sciences, and is the process of restoring an incapacitated individual to a normal life through training and therapy. Globally, 2.4 billion people may currently require rehabilitation. In 60 to 70% of countries, existing rehabilitation services have been disrupted due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COV...

By Ganapathy Krishnan

Objectives: Like other areas of care affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth (both audio and video) was rapidly adopted in the obstetric setting. We performed a retrospective analysis of electronic health record (EHR) data to characterize the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with telehealth utilization among patients who recei...

By Cheng Gao, Sarah Osmundson, Bradley Malin, You Chen

As telehealth is increasingly adopted across all care settings, it is important to understand how clinicians can adapt and respond to patient needs. Drawing from experiences of a virtual primary care physician and a patient advocate, this Perspectives editorial provides additional insights beyonds the telehealth basics for establishing digital empa...

By Matthew Sakumoto, Sarah Krug

Objective: During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many other health providers needed to rapidly adopt telehealth services to ensure continuity of patient care, without the opportunity to extensively evaluate the usability of the adopted technology. Therefore, this study aims to examine health professionals’ telehealth usabil...

By Jing Xu, Hanadi Hamadi, Kristen Hicks-Roof, Robert Zeglin, Chloe Bailey, Mei Zhao

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

Objective: To validate an algorithm previously developed by the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre, IIT Madras, India for screening of diabetic retinopathy (DR),  in fundus images of diabetic patients from telecamps to examine the screening performance for DR. Design: Photographs of patients with diabetes were examined using the automated...

By Sheila John, Sangeetha Srinivasan, Natarajan Sundaram

Objective To identify, describe, and address gaps in telehealth training at the graduate medical education level Materials and Methods We designed a 12-question survey to capture the telehealth experiences and educational opportunities for residents and fellows in the Minneapolis/St Paul, MN region. Results There were 213 responses from 51 differen...

By Matthew Sakumoto, Ryan Jelinek, Aditi Joshi

As we look towards post-pandemic health delivery, the role of telehealth must be examined. We use the RE-AIM framework to discuss the challenges and successes of telehealth during the pandemic in the United States, and propose critical aspects to consider for optimizing telehealth care in the future....

By Alison Cahill, Elizabeth C. Matsui