Telehealth

Asad Lilani, political strategy director at the Access Challenge, says the NGO recruits regional influencers and community members for its African vaccination campaigns. Their messages appear on each region's favored communications platform.

Patients of the medical center's hospital-at-home program in Minnesota and Florida will be able to receive home deliveries via Zipline's drones.  

New partnerships with Mayo Clinic and Memorial Hermann Health Systems will bring Zipline's autonomous home-delivery service to Houston, Jacksonville and Rochester, Minnesota.

Officers in Oklahoma can contact mental health professionals from their vehicles, avoiding ER visits and other risks. In the counties served by the virtual care program, there has been a 93.1% reduction in hospitalizations for mental health crises.

Launching telemedicine from within the patient portal – which enables the health system to get electronic signoff on certain documents – is a big boon for compliance and efficiency.

Temporary Medicare items will be in trial soon to allow patients to get admitted and seek psychiatric virtual consultations in private hospitals.

Caregivers can order rides and deliveries for their care recipients and pay for the service using the care receiver's health benefits.  

RPM tools and other user-friendly tech are enabling a paradigm shift in care delivery, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, CMO at Biofourmis, who says it's also important to be educated on the pain points associated of home care.