Connected Health

With a collaborative spirit and a drive to provide the virtual care patients wanted, the health system has grown its program by leaps – it now sees in 10 minutes the number of patients it used to see via telemedicine in a month.

The onset of the COVID-19 crisis a year ago, with its widespread quarantines and lockdowns, offered telemedicine its moment to shine after years of under-fulfilled promise. As states look toward a post-pandemic world it's time to build on that promise.

ANSI/CTA-2090 puts the focus on three must-haves, according to the Consumer Technology Organization: human trust, technical trust and regulatory trust.

The health system was conducting around 25 to 50 virtual visits a day; at the height of the pandemic, that rose to nearly 8,000. It worked with Cisco, Apple and others for clinician-to-clinician video.

Thirty mobile health apps from larger healthcare information technology companies were susceptible to a broken object level authorization (BOLA) attack.

St. John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles has completed 93,000 telehealth visits since April 2020, serving more than 56,000 patients.

More than 100 stakeholders, including AMA, AHA and Mayo Clinic, have convened to release policy and regulatory recommendations to improve the country's disaster preparedness. 

"The COVID-19 pandemic has created historic opportunities for smart health technologies outside the hospital," says EarlySense's CEO.

The telehealth program has helped the provider organization preserve hospital capacity through multiple COVID-19 surges, while decreasing readmission rates and ED utilization.

Providers at the Western Ohio-based health system work with staff at more than 70 schools to keep kids healthy and avoid ER visits using virtual care.