Avoiding Alert Fatigue and Clinician Burnout While Scaling Virtual Care
The ability to capture and surface data through remote monitoring is a necessary component of a high impact virtual care program. If used effectively, virtual care can dramatically improve patient outcomes, but at what cost? In this article, we discuss a critical obstacle to scaling virtual care that has the potential to dampen its transformative expectations.
Industry Voices – Will the country choose virtual care post-COVID-19? Yes—but only if it’s better
Today, telehealth is largely a matter of convenience—which in and of itself has great value in improving access and lowering costs. But telehealth will prove, in the coming months and years, that it will deliver better primary care to larger numbers of patients—and do so more efficiently than our current brick-and-mortar system. Here’s how…
How Virtual Reality Is Aiding Mental Health Care
Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, technology has seen an increasing role in healthcare, with the current global crisis bringing a new level of interest into technology-based solutions for many of the ongoing health challenges. However, in recent years, virtual reality (VR) has already begun to be used to assist with treatment of mental health issues, such as anxiety disorders and phobias.
How Physician’s Can Humanize Virtual Care
In the 1930s, physician house calls represented 40 percent of all physician-patient encounters. By 1980, that number had fallen to less than one percent. But the “golden age” of the physician house call has come full circle—albeit in a virtual fashion.
It’s Time To Go All In On Telehealth
The COVID-19 pandemic catapulted telemedicine from an underused, value-added offering in employee benefits plans into the safest, most secure and sometimes only means of accessing health care. Now, as businesses move to reopen, employers need to resist reverting to the traditional brick-and-mortar health care model — and its escalating costs.
More than half of Americans would use virtual care, UnitedHealth Group survey finds
While the rush to telehealth adoption may have slowed a bit from its highs early on in the pandemic, the data show consumer interest in virtual care continues to be piqued. According to UnitedHealth Group’s fifth annual Consumer Sentiment Survey, a survey-record 56% said it is likely they would use virtual care for medical services. Link to original article
The Digital Health Boomerang
In a crisis, finding the “right” solution is much less important than finding the “right now” solution. During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical practices scrambled to quickly transition care out of the office, with some practices fully turning over to virtual strategies in the course of a single weekend — and they used whatever means available […]
Myongji Hospital moves beyond telemedicine to provide ‘virtual care’
Earlier this month, Myongji Hospital opened the Virtual Care Center, the nation’s first integrated online and offline healthcare service provider that aims to offer “newly integrated life healthcare in the contactless era.”
IS VIRTUAL EDUCATION THE CURE?
How virtual education may accelerate healthcare professional education during, and post, COVID-19 An essential component of healthcare professional education has historically been in-person and hands-on patient care and interaction under the supervision of clinical faculty. Yet the COVID-19 global pandemic has made face-to-face, hands-on clinical education challenging or impossible due to shortages or closures of […]
Access to Healthcare is a Human Right
Living during a pandemic can lead people to evaluate and re-evaluate long-held beliefs. They might discover that the everyday uncertainty strengthens some of their convictions and weakens others. If you ask people living with the threat of COVID-19 if they believe access to healthcare is a human right, many would respond in the affirmative. Anyone […]