Put Virtual Care Knowledge to Work

In this webinar, healthcare leaders shared real-world strategies for addressing workforce shortages, limited specialty capacity, and other rural healthcare access challenges.

In 2020, Remote Area Medical (RAM) expanded its approach by launching a telehealth program. What started as a response to the pandemic has since developed into a hybrid care model that combines mobile medical units, on-site nurses, and remote volunteer physicians.

In this episode of Health Virtually Uncensored, host Joe Kvedar sits down with Dr. David Guidry of Intermountain Health for an unfiltered conversation about redefining digitally enabled care—especially in rural America.

The evolving landscape of healthcare is writ large when it comes to small town hospitals. When operating on a smaller scale, vacant specializations are often sorely missed, and community members have little choice but to look elsewhere for care. Throw a global health crisis into the mix, and rural hospitals suffer disproportionately as the clinician labor shortage deepens. Here is a look at how one rural medical facility addressed the challenge and provided care to its community on its own terms.

In this webinar, URAC-accredited organizations Children’s National Hospital, AbleTo, and Texas Tech University shared how they are working to improve the quality of and access to care for children, people experiencing mental health challenges, and incarcerated individuals.

This panel session explores the effective implementation of telehealth programs to manage primary care, specialty care, and chronic issues remotely, focusing on the technical requirements for integrating medical devices. We address specific challenges and solutions unique to providing healthcare in schools, prisons, and rural hospitals.

Learn how virtual specialty care keeps Prime Healthcare patients local, improves access to specialists, drives faster diagnoses and treatment for complex conditions, reduces cost, and increases patient engagement and satisfaction.

This important webinar addresses the critical issue of rural hospital and clinic closures, a phenomenon that poses significant challenges to patient access to healthcare and the overall well-being of rural communities. Our panel of expert speakers explored the various factors leading to these closures, emphasizing that while the reasons are complex, solutions are attainable. The focus of the discussion is on the role of telehealth policies in supporting rural health facilities.

Watch this engaging and informative session to gain valuable perspectives on the Brazilian experience of implementing and using telehealth. This event featured the perspective of Dr. Jefferson Fernandes, who is not just an academic authority but also a practical expert in the field of telehealth.

Learn how these programs saved the cost equivalent of 3-4 FTEs, made available previously unavailable specialty services leading to added revenue and decreased patient transfers, improved ICU and ER throughput, enabled seamless credentialing and licensing, and drove stronger alignment with rural community needs for behavioral health care.

Across their journey, the ATA has served as an invaluable partner in the success of Cincinnati Children’s telehealth program —helping support their virtual care offerings and exponential growth in telehealth appointments, from a handful to thousands in just a few years.

Telehealth can do more than enhance a caregiver’s experience, it can also help to reduce their burden.

Prepared by Executives for Health Innovation (EHI) and Philips Healthcare, and based on a 2021 EHI roundtable, Maternal Health Matters: Equitable Access, Care, and Technology, this timely new report explores the maternal health crisis and offers real-world examples and solutions designed to eliminate disparities in maternal health and reduce maternal mortality rates.

The ATA’s Advisory Group to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities published a new Stakeholder Engagement Framework to identify key stakeholder groups responsible for curbing health disparities: policy makers, payers and solutions providers, community, and care teams and institutions.