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“Discharge” Is An Illusion
Health systems and regulatory agencies compile mountains of hospital discharge data – and too often they consider a discharge to be a one-and-done event worthy of a marching band. But some health...
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RPM Is A Proven Winner
How well does Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) perform when it comes to increasing access, lowering costs and improving quality of care? Extremely well, according to last year’s joint research project...
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The DigiPsych Revolution
The term “telepsychiatry” makes you think of those days when a movie star filming in New York would call a Beverly Hills shrink for a long-distance session. Today, a land-line telephone is seldom used...
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Telehealth Transforms India
Nipun Goyal is the co-founder of Curofy, which makes an app that connects more than 50,000 doctors across 300 cities in India. The Times of India recently hailed Curofy as “one of the 5 best Android...
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Oasis In The Desert
In a recent MarketWatch report, Phil Miller, from the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins, said that 65 million people in the U.S. live in what’s “essentially a primary care desert.” According to the...
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Embracing The Network
There have been dozens of books published on how to “fix” healthcare, but probably one of the best is “Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur’s Guide To Fixing Healthcare” by Jonathan Bush (who also...
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Five Encouraging Trends
In certain fields, things seem to continuously trend upwards. That’s true with smartphones, where device ownership increased 30% in just the last four years. It’s also true for the Golden State...
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Thumbs-Up for TeleICUs
The American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) is an influential organization with just under half a million members. Its teleICU nursing practice guidelines provide a very thorough blueprint...
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Telehealth Lessons from Space
Providing telehealth services to the International Space Station, 250 miles above the earth, circling the globe every 90 minutes, is about as “remote” as it can get –. That’s why the World Health...
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Solutions To ED Boarding
Telebehavioral or telemental health care took center stage at the 10th InTouch Telehealth Innovation Forum. Presenters demonstrated how telemental health programs are improving outcomes and lowering...
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Telehealth Enterprise Evolution
The 10th InTouch Telehealth Innovation Forum was a showcase for many health systems that are moving beyond telestroke to an enterprise vision for virtual health. That was the primary focus of a...
View ArticleHow Telehealth Can Help Hospitals Manage Post-Acute Care Costs
HHS estimates that 25 percent of all Americans – and 75 percent of those over age 65 – are dealing with multiple chronic conditions like diabetes and congestive heart failure (CHF). Hospitals and...
View ArticleWant To Cut Your Hospital’s Door-To-Needle Time By 13 Minutes?
There are times when 13 minutes can seem like an eternity, like when you’re sitting through movie previews in a theater. But in the world of stroke treatment, shaving 13 minutes off door-to-needle time...
View ArticleSurvey Reveals Positive Views For Telehealth, Part I
Texas has long been a bellwether state, just like California and New York. All three of those states have large cities plus sizable rural stretches. Think Houston/Amarillo, L.A./Modesto, New York...
View ArticleSurvey Reveals Positive Views For Telehealth, Part II
From Ross Perot to the fictional J.R. Ewing from Dallas, business people rule the roost in Texas. And their powerful voices are providing strong tailwinds for telehealth in the Lone Star state. The...
View ArticleAssessing Telehealth’s Value
A typical value-based care contract (VBC) is extremely complicated, but gauging the overall value something brings is much easier – and telehealth delivers amazing value. Recently, at the American...
View ArticleTelehealth Enters The Mainstream
We’ve all heard the term “mainstream media,” which differentiates network TV and the New York Times from, say, blogs intended for a niche audience. We often view healthcare in the same way, where...
View ArticleMachine Learning Meets Telehealth
The synergy between machine learning and telehealth will soon make the futuristic medicine practiced in the hit movie Doctor Strange seem like child’s play. IBM Watson Health is leading the revolution...
View ArticleTelehealth Safeguards Newborns
Some precious lives start out in jeopardy, like the 10% of newborns with an Apgar respiration score of one (irregular breathing) or zero (no breathing at all). Most of these babies can be resuscitated...
View ArticleHow Telehealth Can Help Hospitals Manage Post-Acute Care Costs
HHS estimates that 25 percent of all Americans – and 75 percent of those over age 65 – are dealing with multiple chronic conditions like diabetes and congestive heart failure (CHF). Hospitals and...
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