Telehealth
The pandemic gave rise to telehealth and app-based scheduling – and new patient expectations. Long patient waits – and even waiting rooms themselves – may be things of the past, says one physician expert.
A study from UC San Francisco found that frontline pain management clinicians are curious about VR – but want to see crucial adaptations for diverse patient groups.
HIMSS21
The IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science's recent report takes a deep dive into health IT trends, explains Executive Director Murray Aitken.
In this edition of "Workplace Re-Entry in the Healthcare Industry," Zoom CIO Advisor Bill Shickolovich and U Penn Medicine CIO Michael Restuccia discuss how the healthcare industry is handling the shift to work from home.
The inclusion of remote therapeutic monitoring codes in the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule suggests that transformations in digital health policy initiated in response to COVID-19 are beginning to have some permanence.
The Office of Inspector General found that many states do not conduct monitoring specific to telemedicine – despite reporting concern about fraud, waste and abuse.
The new Providence National Foundation is targeting technologies and strategies for wider access to personalized care, including telehealth, genome sequencing, data mapping and more.
We spoke with a telemedicine expert to get a feel for where virtual care technology goes from here, and how near-term changes in healthcare might impact the ways it's deployed.
"The goal is surgeons who have the world's best expert surgeon virtually at their side in every case and the experience of thousands of cases," says University of Washington's Dr. Sam Browd.
They will collaborate to build and implement a technology solution that solves doctors' daily operational problems.