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Telehealth: The Tipping Point of Virtual Care Platform Adoption

Electronic Health Reporter

While telehealth has been around for years, virtual care technology is emerging as a powerful tool that goes beyond the traditional telehealth model. What will it take to reach the tipping point of virtual care adoption?

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association).

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Franciscan Health uses inpatient and ambulatory telehealth, closing gaps in care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. At the time, its portfolio of virtual care was limited to behavioral health and telestroke teams. THE PROBLEM. ” PROPOSAL.

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Upswing Health combines AI and telehealth to improve MSK care and cut costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Musculoskeletal (MSK) is routinely one of the three most expensive categories of care (along with cardio-metabolic disease and cancer care). Dr. Steve Schutzer, an orthopedic surgeon for 34 years, is working on this pain point as cofounder and COO of Upswing Health, a virtual clinic for MSK/orthopedic problems.

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte. One in two U.S. “Macy’s?” ” you ask.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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Digital Healthcare Delivery: Four Things That Matter Most

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Janelle Estes, Chief Insights Officer at UserTesting , a video-based human insight platform. No wonder telehealth adoption is surging. A survey by the American Medical Association (AMA) showed that physicians, like their patients, have responded very positively to the telehealth spike.