Put Virtual Care Knowledge to Work

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.

With the explosive proliferation of digital technologies, an ever-increasing amount of health data is generated by consumers themselves. This data is both held and used by companies that are not bound by the obligations of HIPAA, leaving that data largely under-protected and under-regulated.

In a time when the need and demand for telehealth skyrocketed, hospitals and medical facilities were at their lowest ability to make the necessary digital transformation.

Nurses across the nation are feeling the post-COVID strain of smaller care teams, larger patient caseloads and cumbersome administrative workflows taking them away from bedside care, resulting in burnout and increased vacancies.

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.

"Asynchronous Healthcare" means an exchange of information that does not occur in real-time, involving the secure collection and transmission of a patient's medical information, education, and resources to support families or clinicians/providers including, but not limited to: clinical data, self-reported medical history/information, provider-to-provider consultations, peer support, patient instructions, and decision aids.

Purchasing a telehealth stethoscope can be a challenging process if you’re not sure what you’re looking for or how to set up a system to maximize its capabilities.

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.

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

US hospitals are currently facing significant challenges related to work-force shortages, access to care, and rising costs due to an aging population and limited healthcare professionals.

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.

Learn how Spectrum Health leveraged Amwell’s automated emergency department follow-up program to reduce readmissions and increase cost savings.

The TeleICU Guidelines were developed to assist practitioners in providing assessment, medical intervention, continuous monitoring and/or consultation to the critical care population using telecommunication technologies.

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