Telehealth

Hospital medical staff can stream live footage from inpatient units to nursing stations and initiate patient communication without having to physically enter rooms.

Since mid-March, Dr. Mamdouh Riad has been able to see an average of 30 patients per day via the mobile FaceTime integration and has converted 85-90% of patients to telehealth.

Those are just two areas that will be crucial for health systems adapting to the coronavirus crisis going forward, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

With consumer-centric healthcare, patients have access to their cost and data and, in a post-COVID world, more virtual care.

In a HIMSS20 Digital presentation, leaders from Google Cloud, Nuance and the Health Data Analytics Institute offer their perspectives on how AI-powered insights and automation are helping health systems push forward.

The pandemic has proven the "generalizability of telehealth" says the CMIO of NYU Langone Health, where virtual visits have skyrocketed. ATA, meanwhile, is asking Congress for more funding and flexibility to help build on its promise.

Now more than ever, healthcare IT leaders can use a comprehensive listing of companies that make technologies that help keep tabs on patients from afar.

Ahead of the COVID crisis SCIA had begun to pilot a telehealth service and built their Microsoft platform so it was able to swing into action fairly rapidly after the face to face NeuroMoves service had to close.

The 72-practice Community Care Physicians medical group turns to patient engagement technology to improve its no-show rate, send COVID-related newsletters to patients and remind them of their telehealth appointments during the pandemic.