Telehealth
There has been an uptake of remote triage and virtual consultations across primary care, and Dr. Minal Bakhai, GP and clinical director for digital-first primary care NHS England, discusses the key steps that have been taken to ensure best practices.
The telecommunications giant is seeking to expand its reach in healthcare whilst dealing with strikes and imminent redundancies.
The health system was conducting around 25 to 50 virtual visits a day; at the height of the pandemic, that rose to nearly 8,000. It worked with Cisco, Apple and others for clinician-to-clinician video.
Their five recommendations and strategies for integration with primary care focus on new approaches to patient screening, clinical documentation and data sharing.
The grant was given to the state group to increase telemedicine quality and access, with the goal of combating healthcare disparities for lower-income people and communities of color.
This week's top stories include the top 10 things CEOs and CFOs say they got right during the pandemic, 43 states improving telehealth reimbursement policies, and Fitbit adding blood glucose tracking to its connected app.
Biofourmis CEO Kuldeep Singh Rajput shares why he expects healthcare providers to continue shoring up their virtual care capabilities.
Peaking at more than 20,000 video visits per month, 85% of families rank its telemedicine services as nine or higher on a 10-point scale. Here's an in-depth look at the program.
Even as the medical association itself works toward more diversity, it's helping lead the charge on social determinants, ZIP code disparities and other challenges brought to the fore by a pandemic that's disproportionally affected communities of color.
A new report shows that almost three-quarters of the number of breaches reported to HHS in the last six months of 2020 were tied to third-party business associates.