Telehealth

The telehealth devices help vulnerable patients nervous about going to the hospital during a pandemic stay in touch with their physicians.

It's been a busy year. As health systems continue to grapple with the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, we look back on the tech lessons learned these past many months – with cautious optimism for a better year ahead.

This week's top stories include CMS adding more than 60 telehealth services but the American Telemedicine Association expressing concerns about remote patient monitoring, and DeepMind AI's protein folding prediction achieving unprecedented accuracy.

Telehealth Connection TV: Waystar CEO Matt Hawkins discusses with Parity Health founder Iris Frye why convenience helps drive engagement – and virtual care is no exception.

The goal of its Nuance deployment is to significantly reduce after-hours “pajama time” charting while introducing the voice of the patient to the EHR, says its CIO and CMIO.

Digital Care CEO Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed describes how a nationwide telemedicine initiative to provide teleconsultations to the whole population of Pakistan presented an opportunity to drive adoption of technology during the pandemic.

Although the American Telemedicine Association commended the agency's moves to expand some services, it urged CMS to reconsider its approach to remote patient monitoring.

The pandemic has proven that it's possible to innovate quickly in the face of crisis. Now it's time to keep that momentum going.  

The provider is integrating translation technology to successfully communicate with its many monolingual Chinese patients to gain further efficiencies.

Final rule expands Medicare telehealth services and increases pay for office visits, but cuts emergency physician payment.