Telehealth
In what's billed as the first large-scale study of inequitable access to telemedicine, a JAMA report calls on providers to ensure "all patients are equipped to effectively participate."
Telemedicine made it possible to staff sister hospital Cannon Memorial and keep it open to medical patients. "Preserving a critical access hospital for the people who need care in this rural area is a very big deal," a physician exec says.
The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals.
Even amid the pandemic, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh found success for peri- and post-transplant care in 2020. It's now tending to hundreds of children with video visits during the second wave of COVID-19.
The new legislation would implement permanent rate parity for virtual behavioral health services, among its other provisions.
From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond.
Healthcare has a customer service problem – and that "could be the difference between achieving herd immunity in 2021, or not."
Where are vaccine supply chains, value-based care, AI, telehealth and other trends headed next year? C-suite leaders from an array of vendors weigh in on provider/payer relations, the healthcare workforce and more.
Some of the apps were comparable to general practitioners when it came to safety performance, but none were as accurate in terms of diagnosing ailments.