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Emergency Department (ED) boarding strains hospitals by driving up costs, worsening patient outcomes, and increasing staff burnout—but addressing it offers a unique opportunity to fund virtual care programs through cost savings. This whitepaper from AvaSure explains how reducing ED boarding improves patient flow and operational efficiency while creating a sustainable path to deploy virtual nursing without extra budget. 

Dr. Joe Kvedar sits down with Greg Weidner, MD, Senior Medical Director of Virtual Health at One Medical, to explore how One Medical is redesigning primary care for a digital-first world.

Discover how Piedmont Healthcare revolutionized its infectious disease care through the integration of AmplifyMD's telehealth solutions.

The Published Peer-Reviewed Literature on Ocular Telehealth Programs was created by the ATA Ocular Special Interest Group (SIG) as a resource for anyone interested in Ocular Telehealth.

Learn how thousands of patients have benefited from virtual specialist services and how the hospital has realized tremendous clinical and financial value over more than 3,450 patient encounters since August 2021.

Learn how this tele-psychiatry program helped support same-day discharge for 82% of psychiatric patients, admissions for 79% of patients meeting inpatient criteria, and the movement of 71% of the patients who received a consult to a lower level of care.

Learn how Riverside Health System realized more thorough 24-hour coverage for specialty stroke care, improved critical patient response times with door-to needle time reduced from 47 to 35 minutes and average four-minute connect time, better physician retention, seamless integration into EMR and other data systems, and compliance with highest accreditation standards.

Learn how this tele-neurology solution helped reduce wait times by 80%, supported more than 600 additional appointments, reduced the in-person appointment backlog by 40%, and drove the expanded utilization of onsite diagnostics and imaging.

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Ocular Telehealth Special Interest Group (Ocular SIG) issues the following two-part statement about remote ocular health assessments, telehealth disease monitoring, and the need for telehealth in the eye care arena.

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Ocular Telehealth Special Interest Group (Ocular SIG) issues the following two-part statement about remote ocular health assessments, telehealth disease monitoring, and the need for telehealth in the eye care arena. The first part addresses the elements needed to provide high quality remote eye exams, and the second part addresses the need for telehealth as a tool for eye care delivery.

Comprehensive Behavioral Health is a scalable solution designed to maximize efficiencies and minimize the impact of provider shortages by delivering care to those who need it most – all while improving patient outcomes.

This expert consensus statement defines tele-critical care nursing, identifies the key components of a successful tele-critical care nursing practice, outlines the structure required to foster an environment of continuous improvement, and defines the processes and relationships necessary for the successful integration of tele-critical nurses into the healthcare team.

An elderly patient with stage IV prostate cancer contracted a bacterial infection while on vacation, requiring a six-week hospital stay away from home – and his needed cancer treatment.

As the US faces ever-growing healthcare needs from an aging population alongside a limited supply of healthcare providers, we have an opportunity to leverage technology to ensure that people have access to care when and where they need it and expand the capacity of providers to care for more people.

Seeking employment as a virtual therapist can be daunting.

ATA partner URAC released a new white paper, Telehealth: Addressing our Nation's Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Challenges.

Learn how to empower patients to think and feel better using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) through interactive programs, content, and tools.

Learn how Amwell’s digital mental health tools meet Community Benefit Requirements with internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (iCBT).

Learn how MemorialCare used digital mental health programs to support their community during the COVID-19 pandemic and achieved a 90% satisfaction rate.

Recommendations for designing, implementing, and sustaining an ocular telehealth care program.