Healthcare’s Next Void to Fill: Digital Primary Care
No matter what form they take, one thing is clear — there is an urgent demand for digital primary care providers to guide patient navigation in the digital health era.
Designing digital health tools starts with end users’ needs
Emily Barey, chief nurse evangelist at Epic and 2024 Changemaker, discusses how building new healthcare technology requires observing the problems users face and gathering a diverse team to help solve them.
Telemedicine, enabled with responsible AI, can improve the patient experience
By using artificial intelligence to analyze patient data and provide targeted recommendations, health systems can build a more intuitive, user-friendly experience that empowers patients to make informed decisions about their care, one expert says.
Accreditation agencies take on telehealth with new virtual care standards
In the early days of the pandemic, as social distancing forced patients out of doctors’ offices, health care organizations scrambled to offer care online. In turn, health care accreditation organizations rushed to tweak their standards, filling a void in best practices for virtual visits.
Cedars-Sinai expands virtual care offering to children, Spanish speakers
The health system’s expanded app, Cedars-Sinai Connect, will allow parents and Spanish-speaking adults to access 24/7 on-demand care.
The new frontier of healthcare: Bringing hospital care home
This trend is growing because advances in technology and patient preference are driving the hospital-at-home movement.
Telehealth groups urge DEA to release virtual e-prescribing rules
Citing compliance strains on providers and others, and the need to maintain patient care continuity, more than 200 virtual care stakeholders urged the agency to release its regulatory scheme for the prescribing of controlled substances through telehealth.
How rural America is shaping the future of healthcare
What some call flyover country, I call America’s heartland. It’s the part of the map between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes, in states with more cows than people and roads you can drive for an hour without seeing a gas station.
Models adjusting for geography show racial gaps in telehealth use
Unadjusted research models show high telehealth use among minority race groups during the pandemic, but models that adjust for geography reveal the opposite.
Female, chronically ill patients more likely to use telehealth
Over 40 percent of patients used telehealth in 2022, but certain groups are more likely to use the care modality than others, new research reveals.