How Telemedicine Can Enhance Cancer Treatment
Our culture normally thinks of telemedicine as being inappropriate for treating serious diseases, like in cancer treatment. But truth be told, there is a place for telemedicine in oncology. The genetic counseling team at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center have discovered as much over the last two years. MSK counselors were using telemedicine on […]
Telehealth Videoconferencing Is Good, But Still Limited
Telehealth has finally come into its own thanks to coronavirus fallout. Despite the virus and the disease that it causes being so bad, their introduction has forced the healthcare industry to finally start moving toward modern technology. That brings us to telehealth videoconferencing. It is a good technology, but it is still limited. To many […]
Remote Diagnostics Take Telemedicine Beyond Video Calls
Our national response to the COVID crisis has brought telemedicine to the forefront. It has also redefined what telemedicine is, but not necessarily in a good way. Most people think of telemedicine as little more than video calls between medical professionals and patients. Video calls are part of the equation, but true telemedicine has to […]
3 Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic May Be Influencing Telemedicine
It is going to be many years before we know just how profoundly the COVID-19 pandemic has affected healthcare delivery. We already know it has hastened the transition to telemedicine, but the extent of that transition is still unknown. We could actually be on the verge of something really big for telemedicine solutions throughout the […]
Hybrid Patient Experiences
Telehealth has unarguably become a ubiquitous part of the healthcare industry’s vernacular these days. For many, the past year has included a forced conversion of business processes and even business models. The medical community at large has been required to take a much more distanced approach to patient interaction. This paradigm shift has obviously not […]
Taking The Next Step Towards Virtual Healthcare
Are you a healthcare professional asking yourself the following questions? How do you reach more patients wherever they are located? How do you provide the best point of care possible in a mobile or remote environment? How do you adapt your business model to the new normal of telemedicine? How are billing and reimbursements affected […]
A Personalized Approach to Telemedicine
Personal Care in a Telehealth World We all know that telehealth has exploded in popularity during the pandemic, and as settling in as part of our “new normal.” The problem is that there are as many definitions for Telehealth or Telemedicine as there are readers of this article. Phone consultations and FaceTime video calls can […]
