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March 8 Insights Report Delivers Top Take-Aways

eVisit

The staff here at The Virtual Care Blog looks forward to preparing brief, Thought Leadership-worthy content to help you keep your fingers on the pulse of virtual care. The website HealthDay reports Virtual Care may just save her life. Your mother has had a stroke and arrives at a hospital, but the neurologist is on PTO.

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How Telehealth Is Improving Healthcare for Veterans

InTouch Health

The 2016-17 program gave mHealth-enabled tablets to some 6,750 veterans in rural areas across the country. Each tablet came with remote patient monitoring and virtual visit capabilities, and some veterans received additional mHealth devices such as a blood pressure monitor or weight scale. The VA’s Telehealth Tablet Program.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. Health system leaders value nurse innovation skills -- just not at the leadership level, study says.

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HIMSS14: Patiently Waiting for Progress

Chilmark Research

HIE vendors are looking to build out patient portals and care coordination applications as they transition from building pipelines to demonstrating value. While this represents progress for that market, after seeing a leading vendor’s demo and speaking with leadership from two others, we are not quite ready to celebrate.

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