Tag: Telemedicine implementation

Arizona Hospital Association Brings Telehealth COVID Care into the Homes of Vulnerable Populations

Project Goals: Bringing COVID-19 Palliative Care Into the Home “People want to be at home. They don’t want to go to the hospital.” That was the goal of the The Arizona Palliative Care Telehealth Program for COVID-19: to treat people where they’re at through telehealth and to keep them out…

Top 10 Tips for Making Telehealth work: A Physician Perspective — Michael Rodriguez MD, Fairfax Family Practice Centers

Need practical tips on how to set up and deploy telemedicine for your clinic or practice? Here are the top 10 tips for making telehealth work from a physician perspective. Dr. Rodriguez shares his first hand experiences of putting together the processes and technology needed to provide telemedicine to his…

10 Unexpected Pitfalls of Telehealth Home Care for Seniors

For chronic disease patients receiving home care, telehealth is a gamechanger. And the number of these patients are expected to explode as the Baby Boomer generation ages. While the acceptance of technology by seniors has been the biggest concern of those who want to do telehealth with them, the truth…

Using Telemedicine Visits To Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Author: Greg Deranian There is more incentive than ever now to reduce hospital readmissions. That’s because the federal government is trying to reign in mounting medical costs. Healthcare is a commodity that has risen steadily over the years−and that trajectory is expected to remain consistent going forward. Consider the fact…

How To Set Up Telehealth To Enhance Your Practice

Starting up telehealth services in one of the most highly regulated fields in the US can be like walking a minefield. Join our #TFSS webinar guest Ranya Habash, MD – an elite eye surgeon who has successfully added telehealth services to her practice and Chief Medical Officer of Everbridge. .…

Get Full Medicare Reimbursement in the Skilled Nursing Facility

Every skilled nursing facility must abide by rules set by Medicare, particularly when it comes to Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations, or PAHs. In fact, Medicare will soon be changing its reimbursement policy so that if a patient is readmitted to a hospital after a short stay in skilled nursing, the facility is…

VSee CEO Moderates Kaiser, Sutter Health at CAHL Telemedicine Workshop

Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, Stanford Healthcare, and others will be joining a panel discussion on the implementation of telemedicine technologies in San Francisco on Thursday, June 25, 2015. VSee CEO Milton Chen will moderate. These leading health care systems will share their experiences of changing the patient encounter through telehealth.…