The Virtual Care Paradigm: Going beyond telehealth for the future – and present – of care
Virtual reality (VR) is mostly seen as the domain of the gaming industry. The increasing penetration of connected devices in the healthcare sector, increased investment, and the growing need to reduce the healthcare cost are the major drivers of virtual reality in the healthcare market.
Telehealth app helps medical staff find specialists
A nurse in Guam struggling to stabilize a COVID-19 patient got help within minutes from a physician at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Houston and a nurse at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. Using telehealth, they identified the problem and walked the nurse through a procedure that likely saved the patient’s life.
Virtual Care Faces A New Era
The market dynamics for telehealth and virtual care continue to evolve, and virtual care ecosystem players must understand how consumers have experienced these changes to better position themselves and design their solutions.
Telehealth and the rise of contextual care
For the first time, clinicians have been able to get a “behind the scenes look” into their patient’s environment during telehealth visits
The State of Virtual Care in MENA
COVID-19 led to an emergence of healthcare innovations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which has had to reimagine its healthcare delivery system as the pandemic has exposed many weaknesses in its delivery model, creating opportunities for better healthcare delivery with virtual care.
VA Looks to Expand Its Use of 5G and AR to Help Doctors and Patients
The Department of Veterans Affairs is working to deploy a new 5G-enabled augmented reality surgical navigation system.
3 Considerations to Bolster Virtual Care Services for Better Business Outcomes
Here’s how virtual care can help midsized healthcare systems improve margins and minimize disruptions.
Virtual Reality: A major healthcare influencer
Virtual reality (VR) is mostly seen as the domain of the gaming industry. The increasing penetration of connected devices in the healthcare sector, increased investment, and the growing need to reduce the healthcare cost are the major drivers of virtual reality in the healthcare market.
4 Best Practices to Foster Virtual Care Transformation for Providers
Telehealth’s meteoric rise began just as the pandemic took off, and all indications suggest it’s here to stay. States that were once unwilling to reimburse for virtual visits are now onboard. Some have even passed parity legislation requiring insurers to reimburse equally for in-person visits and virtual visits.
How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes
By Bill Siwicki In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient’s response to a prescribed […]