Patient Engagement
COVID-19: What is different in our understanding of this pandemic to the accepted wisdom in the spr…
As we have heard repeatedly over the past few months, there is a need to think of managing this pandemic in the same way we prepare for a marathon rather than a sprint, says Dr Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer, HIMSS.
Dr. Anthony Chang, chief intelligence and innovation officer at CHOC and founder of AIMed, talks about how machine learning is transforming imaging, decision support, clinical workflow and physician-patient interaction.
Hundreds of thousands of apps aimed at treating a wide variety of conditions are available – but their efficacy and quality remains largely unclear.
Clinicians, vendors and telehealth advocates stress the importance of virtual services in expanding access to care – and noted the ways it still needs to improve.
The program is set to begin piloting at select sites in the RWJBarnabas system by completing social determinants of health screenings for patients.
With an appointment-reminders solution alone managing 100,000 reminders per month, the health system reduced its no-show rate from 7% to 5%, leading to the savings.
Providers, certified IT developers and HIEs should "be on the lookout" for upcoming adjustments in certain timelines, said Deputy National Coordinator Steve Posnack.
Telehealth Connection TV: Telehealth is playing a larger role in advance planning for end-of-life care, says the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Silvia Perez-Protto.
Rather than trying to replace in-person care, telehealth in the future will complement and enhance it, said Amwell's Roy Schoenberg, during a conversation with Google Cloud's Aashima Gupta.
This was enabled thanks to an FCC COVID-19 grant that supplied all physicians with new laptops that feature HD webcams and processing power for seamless video visits.