Telehealth

The average wait time for a specialist appointment across healthcare can be well over three months, but volunteers on this FQHC-focused initiative usually respond in less than 10 hours. Timely access to specialty care impacts health outcomes.

Also, Indonesia's Ministry of Health has launched an online portal for accessing population health data.

The nurse stroke program manager offers an in-depth look at the virtual care initiative, which brings neurologists from other sites into critical decision-making.

The company recently expanded the platform's capabilities to support those in inpatient settings to work across hospital, ambulatory, telehealth, skilled nursing facilities and home health. 

The California-based virtual women's healthcare company will be available to employers nationwide beginning January 2024.  

Also, Fujitsu and Toppan have partnered to offer advanced big data analysis services.

The care management platform also announced a partnership with a large family medicine practice with offices in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

CMS should get more information from Medicare users to help address their health disparities, suggests Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.

"If we can manage patients on the front side of their diagnoses, and continue that management longitudinally, it's going to have a significant impact on the escalation of patients' chronic conditions," one expert says about the value of preventative care.

A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that "ongoing telemedicine use is fairly effective in having limited return office visits, low emergency visit rates, and very low hospitalization rates compared to office visits."