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Employing telehealth to ease the hospice transition for kids with cancer

April 23, 2024 - Hospice plays a critical role in providing care and comfort to patients at the end of their life. A challenging time for patients and their loved ones, hospice care relies on coordinated efforts from various experts, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and spiritual advisors, according to the National Institute on Aging. To support this care coordination, one Georgia-based...

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Using telehealth to provide timely mental healthcare in rural Illinois

by Anuja Vaidya

Various factors are driving the mental healthcare crisis in America, not least of which is the rising demand for services and the concurrent dwindling supply of mental health professionals. As a result, Americans with pressing mental...

Why Ochsner & Humana struck an RPM partnership for chronic care

by Anuja Vaidya

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools and services have proven remarkably effective at improving chronic disease management. However, access to RPM programs can be challenging, particularly for underserved populations. One strategy to...

Establishing a telehealth alliance to boost rural healthcare access

by Anuja Vaidya

Rural healthcare provider organizations have a formidable mandate: improve health outcomes of underserved populations with shoestring budgets and limited clinical resources. Though virtual care approaches have proven valuable in expanding...

How ChristianaCare’s digital cardiac care program is closing racial gaps

by Anuja Vaidya

Healthcare organizations recognize that health inequities are detrimental to much-needed progress in clinical outcomes and care access nationwide. However, there is little agreement on how best to eliminate these inequities. Though virtual...

Creating a community-led telehealth approach for supportive cancer care

by Anuja Vaidya

Cancer is a life-changing diagnosis for the patient and everyone in their orbit. Treatment of this deadly disease is all-consuming and filled with uncertainty, because of which cancer patients are at risk of experiencing mental health and...

How a virtual-first approach can boost patient, provider experience

by Anuja Vaidya

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic set off a chain reaction transforming healthcare delivery in America, it has become apparent that virtual care is here to stay; however, it cannot fully replace in-person care delivery. Thus,...

Why UC Davis is turning to mHealth tech for post-angioplasty care

by Anuja Vaidya

Post-discharge is a critical period for the overall success of any given procedure. If patients do not follow discharge instructions or clinical changes occur without the care team’s knowledge, the patient could suffer adverse...

Overcoming the Digital Divide Through Community-Based Telehealth

by Anuja Vaidya

The unprecedented rise in telehealth use in recent years signified a new era in healthcare delivery that purported to meet patients where they are. Though the much-lauded benefits of telehealth technology are rooted in real-world evidence,...

How an FQHC is Using RPM to Care for its High-Risk Patient Population

by Anuja Vaidya

A trenchant problem in efforts to advance virtual care utilization is that patients who would benefit the most from these technologies are often unable to access them. To address this issue, rural healthcare providers, including community...

Developing a New ‘EyePhone’ mHealth App for Stroke Detection

by Anuja Vaidya

Strokes are one of the deadliest killers in America, ranking fifth among all causes of death nationwide. The widespread prevalence of strokes is driving an urgent need for technology that enables rapid and accessible detection of the...

Using VR to Create an Immersive Mental Health Support System

by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual reality (VR) technologies offer exciting new promises for healthcare delivery, particularly in the mental health arena. With advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing, and computer vision,...

A Deep Dive into CA’s mHealth Effort to Support Youth Mental Health

by Anuja Vaidya

As healthcare stakeholders attempt to stem the youth mental health crisis in America, many have turned to digital health technology. The latest to do so is the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which has launched a...

What the NJ Lawsuit Adds to Out-of-State Telehealth, Licensure Debates

by Anuja Vaidya

With the rapid expansion of virtual care in recent years came regulatory flexibilities to enable healthcare delivery across state lines. But many of these flexibilities have expired, resulting in a tussle between providers and patients...

Developing Simulation-Based Telehealth Training for Next-Gen Nurses

by Anuja Vaidya

Telehealth has cemented itself as a vital tool in the effort to expand healthcare access and improve care outcomes. To keep up with the rise in adoption and use, healthcare organizations need trained clinicians who are comfortable with...

Leveraging an mHealth App to Improve Maternal Outcomes in Michigan

by Anuja Vaidya

The United States is facing a maternal health crisis, with mortality rates that are three times the rate in most other high-income countries. Mitigating this crisis is a priority for healthcare stakeholders, including public health...

How Virtual Nursing Can Help Fortify a Workforce in Crisis

by Anuja Vaidya

The COVID-19 pandemic hit an already beleaguered nursing workforce hard, driving stress, burnout, and resignations among nurses to record highs. The urgent need to address nurse workflow issues and better support them has sparked fresh...

Using a Smartphone Attachment to Make Neurological Screenings Equitable

by Anuja Vaidya

Screening people early and often for potential health conditions is critical for stemming disease progression and improving patient outcomes. With the advent of advanced digital health tools, various types of screenings can be brought...

How a Provider-Police Collab is Expanding Virtual Mental Health Access

by Anuja Vaidya

Law enforcement officers play an increasingly pivotal role in connecting people with mental health conditions to healthcare services. However, amid strained resources and hospital capacity problems, law enforcement often lacks efficient...

Using Virtual Care Tech to Curb Care Barriers in Rural South Carolina

by Anuja Vaidya

Rural Americans are often caught in a healthcare bind. This population is more likely to suffer from various healthcare issues, including chronic conditions, unintentional injury, and the opioid crisis, but are less able to access the...

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