Telehealth

It's important to provide diverse offerings for different surgical training use cases, says FundamentalVR CEO Richard Vincent.

Caregility Chief Strategy Officer Pete McLain discusses additional use cases for leveraging continuous video observation and the role AI plays.

Telehealth Connection TV: Jabari Butler, CIO of the HEALing Community Center, outlines the lessons other federally qualified health centers can take from the center's virtual care rollout.

This week's top stories include UnitedHealthcare re-examining a policy that allows it to retroactively deny ER claims, Apple adding new health features and Mount Sinai catering to patients with limited English proficiency.

Roy Jakobs, chief business leader of connected care at Royal Philips, says data and workflows around patient care are at the heart of improving the patient journey, while reducing pressure on hospital systems.

Connect America CEO Janet Dillione describes the role of remote patient monitoring and hospital in the home in the evolving delivery of healthcare.

Professor Krishnan Ganapathy, director of Apollo Telehealth Services, says the Indian government has advocated the use of digital tools to accelerate virtual care, including telehealth, and address the shortage of hospital beds.

Telehealth Connection TV: The senator describes the bipartisan interest in safeguarding access to telemedicine as "thrilling" because it improves the quality and availability of care, and decreases costs.

Monthly Update: HIMSS Media's Jonah Comstock recaps some of May's top healthcare stories, including an effort to boost COVID-19 vaccine via texts, alerts and even dating apps; Walmart's acquisition of MeMD; and a malware attack on Scripps.

Universal health coverage is based on systems ensuring an equitable vaccination rollout that is underpinned by solidarity, says Dr. Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe.