Population Health

Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado will share best practices for telehealth and remote patient monitoring, and follow their own state policies while also adhering to seven key principles, their governors say.

Barriers to adoption include hearing issues, lack of tech abilities and visual difficulties.

Frustrated staffers at the Verona campus allege indifference from upper management to the health risks and say there have been efforts to quash dissent. Some say they're looking to unionize in response.

WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge says interoperability and the push for digital health are challenged over trust issues in sharing data.

HIMSS Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Charles Alessi discusses lessons learned in managing the pandemic, describing specific values that have helped countries shape their response to the crisis.

During a recent HIMSS20 Digital session, panelists pointed to the regulatory changes that have eased the way for the expansion of remote patient monitoring services.

Providers say there are a number of logistical, regulatory and educational hurdles that must be overcome for telehealth to reach its potential.

Digital tools offer huge opportunities for helping to contain the coronavirus, and IT solutions that make the management of infected people and contacts more efficient should be prioritized before the next wave.

Convened by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Alliance for Connected Care and the American Telemedicine Association, the task force said it would release a final recommendations report in September.

The framework from Northwestern and UT Austin outlines the specific inpatient admission thresholds to help authorities determine when communities should enact short-term shelter-in-place orders.