In rural communities across the country, it’s often more difficult to find a pharmacist than it is to find a doctor. Now healthcare providers are using telemedicine platforms to create telepharmacy networks and bring the pharmacist into the clinical conversation.
Category Archives: TeleMedicine
telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status
American Medical Association’s ethics council to consider telemedicine guidelines again
The guidelines appear to have changed little but remote visits has turned into one of the biggest trends in healthcare. Next week the association plans to discuss adding the guidelines at its annual conference in Chicago.
Telemedicine as a way to save critically ill newborns
The guidance provided by Mayo neonatologists to the neonatal teams at six participating hospitals prevented having to transfer some infants for critical care and helped stabilize others before transfer. Every transfer avoided saved the system $35,000, for a total of more than $1 million over the course of the three-year study, according to lead author Dr. Jennifer Fang, a fellow in neonatal and perinatal medicine at Mayo in Rochester, Minn.
How telemedicine is helping the VA address its access crisis
The Under Secretary for Health and VA Chief Executive Dr. David Shulkin said at the American Telemedicine Association annual conference yesterday, is that it has pushed the VA into exploring new avenues to provide veterans with care including, increasingly, telemedicine options.
How telehealth can transform behavioral health care
The impact of behavioral health is finally getting its moment in the sun. As the shades of stigma are slowly lifted, people are beginning to speak about mental health and substance use disorders.
Telemedicine Scores a Touchdown: VGo Robot Helps Diagnose Concussions on the Football Field
When the UA Wildcats hosted Northern Arizona University at the teams’ 2013 football season opener in Tucson, a new NAU “team member” stood on the sidelines, ready to make a bit of medical history.
Telemedicine to reduce Medicaid travel costs
Sen. Pete Kelly’s Medicaid reform bill would remove some of the hurdles created by the state’s existing medical laws just in time to take advantage of the state’s growing telemedicine infrastructure.
Kelly said in a March 21 House Finance Committee hearing that one Medicaid reform in his Senate Bill 74 that passed unanimously on March 18 — telemedicine, or telehealth, expansion — is a way of keeping up with the times to reach the best fiscal output for the state.
Using Sleep Telemedicine to Address CPAP Noncompliance in a Middle-Aged Woman
Telemedicine, or telehealth, is an emerging, multifaceted healthcare delivery modality that includes a number of applications such as remote physiological monitoring of patients, as well as clinician-to-clinician and clinician-to-patient interactions conducted via videoconferencing platforms. This case illustrates a common scenario in clinical sleep medicine where a patient exhibited poor CPAP compliance and lost her equipment, despite voicing motivation to use the therapy. Sleep telemedicine was utilized to remedy the situation.
West Virginia’s New Telemedicine Practice Standards & Remote Prescribing Laws
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) signed into law, on March 24, 2016, a new bill (House Bill No. 4463) implementing a variety of telemedicine practice standards and remote prescribing rules in the Mountain State. Effective June 11, 2016, the bill passed the House and Senate unanimously, reflecting strong bi-partisan support.
Telemedicine and alternative payment models: An apt fit
With 30% of Medicare payments now tied to alternative payment models (APMs), and HHS planning to raise that percentage to 50% by the end of 2018, providers are looking for ways to increase quality of care and patient access while holding down costs. One mode that stands to gain is telemedicine, which got a boost in last year’s Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).