Research

Vulnerable populations often struggle to receive quality care, whether because of barriers to treatment such as travel, cost, limited mobility, or lack of a quality support system. Those patients with chronic conditions suffer immensely from sporadic care, which will result in costly care episodes in urgent care or the ER.

The Challenge: Facilitating healthcare for the 72% of Kenyans who live outside of urban areas and face long journeys to seek care in a health system that’s already buckling from overcrowded hospitals and healthcare worker scarcity.

University of Utah Health (UUH) is the Mountain West’s only academic healthcare system, serving patients in predominantly rural settings in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, western Colorado, and much of Nevada. UUH encompasses five hospitals, 12 community care centers, 6 schools and colleges, a health plan covering 190k people, the UU Medical Group, numerous institutes and centers, and one of the United States’ largest reference labs. With such a broad and deep reach, UUH trains most of Utah’s clinicians – physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and other healthcare professionals. This is UUH’s story.

As a Level 5 member of the ATA, Ascension was one of the first HCOs that the ATA engaged to inform the development of our Provider Telehealth Engagement Model. The 5-stage Maturity Model aligned with the work underway within Ascension, providing a framework that Ascension could adopt and adapt internally. This is Ascension’s story.

With a shortage of doctors, patients lack access to proper healthcare.

COVID-19 has lit a fuse under the deployment of digital practices across all business sectors, with adoption rates now approaching levels projected five years from now.

Baptist Health partners with a local employer to transform telehealth benefits and drive healthcare cost savings.

UMass Memorial Health Care re-built its telestroke workflow to consolidate systems, steps and drive efficiency.

A look at how telehealth triage evolved into one of the nation’s largest pediatric telehealth programs.

Insights into solving behavioral health needs by addressing access challenges with telehealth.