Telehealth
American Telemedicine Association President-Elect Ed Brown, MD is the founder and CEO of Ontario Telemedicine Network in Canada. Healthcare IT News caught up with him at the recent ATA conference in Austin, Texas, to talk with him about the state of telemedicine and what he envisions it will be in the coming years.
Sandy Kukla, RN, telehealth senior program manager for GCI ConnectMD, talks about the company's growth from radiology image transfers to a telehealth network connecting 240 provider locations, including some overseas.
(SPONSORED) Raymond Solone, global marketing director, healthcare solutions for Care Innovations, says telehealth needs to "think disruptive" as an industry in order to progress.
Tony Titus, senior vice president of Numera, talks about the company's personal emergency response systems (PERS), which can detect a person falling and automatically place an emergency call.
Ironically, Andrew Watson's first telemedicine procedure was with a rural patient who was a Mennonite. At first, the patient and physician looked at each other warily.
Telemedicine as we know it has been around for almost 50 years. It has moved from humble beginnings as an experimental curiosity delivering rural healthcare to become something on track for mainstream acceptance across the healthcare system.
Kevin Quinn, senior vice president of AMC Health, describes the remote patient monitoring vendor's telehealth services and its device-neutral approach to providing healthcare IT.
Pramod K. Gaur, vice president of telehealth for OPTUMHealth, talks about the payer's interest in telehealth's potential to drive healthcare access, healthcare quality and improvements to the experience of both the patient and provider.
(SPONSORED) Joel E. Barthelemy, founder and managing director of GlobalMed, talks about the company's telemedicine initiatives, its role with the VA and what the government can do to assist telemedicine development and profitability.
Mercy President and CEO Lynn Britton talks about the health system's telehealth initiatives at ATA 2013.