How to reduce friction in onboarding and clinician placement in telehealth

In their new article in npj Digital Medicine (Nature Portfolio), ATA's Andy Molnar and Lani Reilly highlight how outdated reimbursement policies are creating barriers, and why timely policy action, including a dedicated Medicare benefit, is critical to expanding access, reducing costs, and driving equitable, patient-centered digital care.

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. 

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.