Patient Engagement

Video-based real-time services are just the beginning, said American Telemedicine Association President Dr. Joe Kvedar during his keynote for the virtual ATA2020 conference.

During the virtual opening-keynote of ATA2020, Ann Mond Johnson pointed to telehealth's essential role in furthering health equity.

The senator told Healthcare IT News in an interview that any work to expand telehealth access must include the needs of underserved populations.

Available in five languages, the website aims to serve as a national awareness platform, and comes in response to government directives to use “smart solutions in MoHAP’s curative and preventive services” to contain the spread of COVID-19.

An interview with Dr Tan Hui Ling, Managing Director, BSC & OMSMC.

Of the 31 changes federal policymakers have enacted so far to ease access to virtual care, senators wondered: How many should be made permanent?

COVID-19 has shone a harsh light on the weaknesses within our healthcare systems, and we fear that the impact on already vulnerable populations will be long-lasting, according to Marco Greco, president of the European Patients’ Forum, and Jan-Philipp Beck, CEO of EIT Health. 

More than 40% of survey respondents said they didn't trust any organization to keep their data safe.

Providers say patient reluctance to disclose their identities could present problems on both an individual and population-wide level.