For senior living facilities eyeing telehealth to improve care and staff workloads, an mHealth messaging platform may be the best place to start. CarDon & Associates, which operates 20 senior living communities across Indiana, rolled...
While the COVID-19 emergency is forcing many small practices to rethink care management, one New Jersey medical group has developed a telehealth platform that just may offer a blueprint for sustainable virtual care. The Reliance Medical...
A Michigan hospital is using mHealth sensors attached to a patient’s bed to remotely monitor vital signs, and executives see a future for the telehealth platform that goes beyond the success they’re seeing in taking care of...
School may not be in session because of the coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn’t mean school-based telehealth programs are shuttered. In many cases, they’re busier than ever. While originally designed to treat non-acute health...
A new virtual community is advancing the idea that telehealth and mHealth can help the healthcare industry move toward more collaborative care. CareAsOne, unveiled this month in San Francisco, aims to push the connected care concept out to...
A community health clinic in Oakland that offers free healthcare to underserved populations is discovering just how important telehealth can be when payment and reimbursement are taken off the table. The Order of Malta Clinic of Northern...
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has pushed telehealth and mHealth to center stage as healthcare providers of all sizes look to provide care on virtual platforms. But the emergency – and the legislative and policy measures enacted to...
Small and solo medical practices looking to adopt telehealth should be thinking more about the convenience it offers patients than financial reimbursement. That’s the advice of Amy Witt, a dermatologist who launched an asynchronous...
A Georgia health system is planning for the future after converting its direct-to-consumer telehealth platform into a COVID-19 screening service. The Augusta University Health System had intended to roll out its AU Express Health Care...
While the coronavirus pandemic has prompted much of the healthcare industry to embrace telehealth, some providers are finding that virtual visits are an ideal platform for reaching a population that might not easily access in-person care....
Rural health clinics forced to change their ways by the Coronavirus pandemic are finding that telehealth and mHealth platforms can do a lot of good. The Fauquier Free Clinic, serving uninsured and underinsured residents of rural...
With the Coronavirus pandemic pushing healthcare to new extremes, a new group is ready to shine the spotlight on physician assistants and telehealth. PAs in Virtual Medicine and Telemedicine (PAVMT), a national organization launched in 2018...
Telehealth has long been a luxury in rural America, where primary care is still based on the face-to-face visit in the doctor’s office. But COVID-19 has changed that way of thinking, and is helping to build a wave of support for...
A Delaware health system is using federal funding to expand telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs during the Coronavirus pandemic. ChristianaCare was one of the first healthcare providers to receive money from the Federal...
With the Coronavirus pandemic severely curtailing in-person care, a Manhattan-based mental health clinic is getting the most out of its virtual care platform. Now they’re complementing their telemental health services with an mHealth...
Some $200 million is available right now to help healthcare providers launch or expand telehealth programs during the Coronavirus pandemic, and another $100 million is set aside to expand connected health programs to rural areas over the...
The accrediting body for autism treatment providers has developed new standards of care for providers looking to use telehealth. With the nation embroiled in the Coronavirus pandemic and under lockdown for the foreseeable future, the...
OSF HealthCare has launched a state-based telehealth program that uses remote patient monitoring concepts to triage and treat Coronavirus patients in their homes. The Illinois-based, 14-hospital health system’s Pandemic Health Worker...
A network of Massachusetts-based federally qualified health centers is using a million-dollar grant to expand its telehealth programs – not only to meet the challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic but to improve care management when...
Many healthcare providers are expanding their telehealth services during the Coronavirus epidemic, thanks in large part to relaxed guidelines for Medicare coverage. But physical and occupational therapists and speech and language...
