Telehealth

The merger of American Telemedicine Association's advocacy arm with DTA will create the Advancing Digital Health Coalition, a combined policy and advocacy platform focused on advancing new technologies with the potential to transform patient care.

After yet another temporary extension of pandemic-era virtual care flexibilities, a partner at healthcare consulting firm Chartis offers a vision for a sustainable future for these promising care models.

Also, Tasmania has launched a clinical real-time alert system as part of the state's health system digital transformation.

Sherene Schlegel, RN, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer for virtual care and digital health at the 51-hospital health system, offers a tour of its comprehensive telemedicine offering. She explains the program's evolution and highlights big results.

The agencies' special telehealth registries will also be postponed with this latest delay of long-awaited telehealth prescribing guidance.

While healthcare organizations applaud lawmakers' support for extending flexibilities in FY25 stopgap legislation, they still have concerns about long-term certainty for virtual care.

AI-powered remote monitoring using low-cost, disposable sensors can help VA clinicians spot potential issues and intervene to encourage veteran patients to stay compliant, says Kent Dicks, CEO of Life365.

The connected care leader at Philips explains how remote patient monitoring tech can combat hospitals' and health systems' problems with patient retention and overall capacity.

Also, the NSW government has launched a free virtual urgent care service in Sydney.

Much-needed virtual care to underserved Indigenous communities is in development in the Whitecap Dakota First Nation, reports Ivar Mendez, director of Canada's Virtual Health Hub.