Emergency Telepsychiatry and the Acute Care Continuum: Creating Value Through Improved Patient Accessibility and Follow-up
I few years ago, I coined the term, “Medicine Without Walls”1 to describe our future healthcare delivery system—an environment where patient and healthcare practitioner are unencumbered by physical location or limitations in access points due to human resource restrictions, where medical information is transferred not only between...
By Prentice A. Tom
A Plea for Critical Changes to the Electronic Medical Record
The electronic medical record (EMR) is significantly more than a digitalized format for converting patient data into easily stored and recalled information. Today, each patient’s EMR is a vast, growing accumulation of health data sourced from physicians and professional medical devices. And, according to HIPAA, it is the absolute property of ...
By M. Ted Braid
Trends in Telemedicine Use for Addiction Treatment
Methods: A project conducted from February 2013 to June 2014 investigated the adoption of telemedicine services among purchasers of addiction treatment in five states and one county. The project assessed purchasers’ interest in and perceived facilitators and barriers to implementing one or more of the following telemedicine modalities: teleph...
By Todd Molfenter, Mike Boyle, Don Holloway, Janet Zwick
How Crypto-Economics is Redefining Telemedicine
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By Brennan Bennett
Chronic Kidney Disease: Implications for Progression Using Telehealth Monitoring
Background: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a complex and common medical condition requiring a multidisciplinary management approach, including control of multiple parameters to delay progression of the disease. Telehealth has been used for monitoring chronic conditions and can be used for managing chronic kidney disease. Materials and Methods: Pat...
By Abeera Mansur
Telehealth Practically Speaking: Is New York at a Tipping Point?
Medical care is becoming cost prohibitive. Responsiveness and access to care are more difficult. There are reasons and perspectives as to why and how to solve this issue. Yet, despite advances in medicine and technology, delivery of care is more complicated for the average consumer and less rewarding for doctors.. We yearn for the “Norman Roc...
By Ester Horowitz
Using Telehealth as a Model for Blockchain HIT Adoption
Telemedicine and blockchain technology share a core philosophy of empowering the individual. Blockchain solutions that focus on empowering patients and enhancing the workflows for the providers who treat them continue to make big headlines, as does enterprise investment and adoption of telehealth. Both models focus on direct-to-consumer health serv...
By Brennan Bennett
Touch—High or Low—Is Sometimes More Important Than High Tech
“Touch,” the ability to connect at a level relevant to those we try to serve, is as important (arguably more important) than deploying the high-level technology our best minds develop. I was treated to an example of this during my visit to Sony Labs several weeks ago to discuss how we might collaborate to accelerate implementation of te...
By Douglas Shinsato
Blockchain: Taking the Genius of Financial Tracking into the Electronic Health Record Environment on a Global Basis
Blockchain technology developed in 2008 as part of a proposal for the Bitcoin virtual currency system—eschewing a central authority for issuing currency, transferring ownership, and confirming transactions.1 Before understanding its value for the goal of accurate, auditable, and easy of accessing medical record data on a global basis while st...
By Ted Braid
HIPAA Breach Report for October 2017
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy rule uses Protected Health Information (PHI) to define the type of patient information that’s protected by law.1 PHI is an important factor for HIPAA compliance. PHI isn’t confined to medical records and test results. Any information distribut...
By Hoala Greevy