The American Society of Telemedicine brought together a number of speakers to share their expertise on integrating virtual care into healthcare delivery.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
ATA is spending the week encouraging telehealth solutions providers, hospital systems and medical practices, patient advocacy leaders, policymakers and stakeholders Another reviewer considers integrated care models including face-to-face and virtual care.
The The Telehealth Awareness Week series of educational programs aims to share new resources and raise the voice of patients and healthcare professionals who depend on telehealth to receive and deliver care. squirrel.
Each session features a variety of speakers, including doctors and nurses, C-suite executives, operations directors, academics, and others.
The virtual series that started Monday today continues with discussions on the aging process, at-home testing use cases, and reimbursement and increased equity in access to mental health care.
On Wednesday, sessions on patient care, policy, major telemedicine experiences, recruitment and retention of diverse patients for clinical trials by leveraging the internet of things with telehealth and way reach patients with limited WiFi access.
The series ends on Thursday with conversations about asynchronous telehealth, how the digital healthcare transformation affects patient access and remote monitoring.
Register for each individual event.
ATA also compiled resources contributed by organizations to support wider access to telehealth and introduce guest bloggers to address lessons in developing a virtual care model.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Telehealth not only facilitates patient access to care, but also help alleviate burnout experienced in the healthcare industry.
According to Marlene McDermott, vice president of therapeutic services at Array Behavioral Care, the rapid rise in telehealth during the pandemic has led to the deployment of new technology, but what hasn’t kept pace is the strategies. to address burnout caused by telehealth, says Marlene McDermott, vice president of therapeutic services at Array Behavioral Care.
“Telemedicine gives us the opportunity to reimagine how we can leverage this finite amount of resources to their full potential, while acknowledging that in order to maintain the number of existing providers, we must keep keep them happy and mentally healthy,” she said IT news about healthcare in August.
Virtual care can help address accessibility issues caused by physician shortages with education and resources that help cultivate intent with both patients and clinicians using these tools .
ON PROFILE
“Virtual care is no longer simply telehealth. It must be a comprehensive strategy that includes traditional virtual visits, but also acknowledges the importance of a deep strategy around rounding and virtual healthcare, virtual patient monitoring and home hospital and team & community collaboration,” Raj Toleti, CEO of Andor Health, said during an Awareness Week on ATA’s telehealth blog posts.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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