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How Digital Health Can Transform Cardiology

Xealth

One of the areas where I consistently hear complaints about underutilization of digital health tools is for cardiology. Given all the challenges around access to care – from appointment scheduling to driving and parking – it seems there is a great opportunity for remote cardiac rehab solutions to provide benefits all around.

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United Methodist Communities has early successes with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With more than 110 years of continuous operation, the organization has grown to 13 locations offering independent, residential and assisted living; Tapestries Memory Care; respite; rehabilitation; long-term care; Bridges Hospice and Palliative Care; affordable senior housing; and live-in and in-home personal care through HomeWorks.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We spoke with HIMSS Senior Director, Health Information Systems Rob Havasy about the data management challenges posed by remote care delivery. Virtual care poses distinct privacy and security risk factors that must be managed, with new tools and data streams to safeguard and new responsibilities on both the patient and provider side.

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When Social Determinants of Health Limit Virtual Care Access

GlobalMed

This includes a variety of nonprofit and public eligible providers like teaching hospitals and medical schools, community medical centers, local health departments or agencies, not-for-profit hospitals, rural health clinics, and skilled nursing facilities. But expanding broadband access isn’t always enough.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience. Dialogue is an integrated virtual-care clinic that provides bilingual telehealth services 24/7 across Canada.

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

19 Telehealth opportunities and remote care options can create a variety of these touchpoints in a personalized and case-specific way, ranging from an overview of patient consultations to implantable cardiac monitors. 20 Remote monitoring especially holds tremendous potential to profit from telehealth applications. Conclusion.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It also equips providers with Eko’s FDA-cleared AI to assist in remote screening for AFib, heart murmurs, tachycardia and bradycardia. A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. It also provides medication adherence tools.