Telehealth

Photo: Bay of Islands Hospital clinical team members and Broadway Health Kaikohe GP Justine Woodcock (left) liaising with intensive care specialists and a paediatrician at Whangarei Hospital via Zoom. Credit: eHealthNews.nz

Northern district health boards in New Zealand implement new cloud-based telehealth service

By Dean Koh 10:24 pm November 13, 2018

The four Northern Region district health boards (DHBs) in New Zealand have started rolling out a cloud-based telehealth service. Northland, Waitemata, Auckland and Counties Manukau DHBs have developed the new service in close collaboration with their clinical teams.

Telehealth brings psychiatrists into Inspira’s emergency rooms

Inspira Medical Center in Vineland. (Credit: Inspira Health)

Telehealth brings psychiatrists into Inspira Health’s emergency rooms

By Bill Siwicki 12:11 pm November 06, 2018

Patients receive needed interventions quicker, resulting in better outcomes and higher levels of satisfaction.

Telemedicine reduces hospitalizations from 154 per six months to 85 at skilled nursing facility

By Bill Siwicki 01:39 pm November 02, 2018

Central Island Healthcare now is able to regularly treat common ailments among residents such as hypertension, fever, chest pain and COPD in place, rather than sending patients to an emergency room.

(Credit: Tyto Care)

Portable telemedicine tech keeps kids in school, and quadruples locations

By Bill Siwicki 01:14 pm November 01, 2018

The Center for Rural Health Innovation switched from telehealth carts to portable tech and now treats 26 schools compared with six prior. The implementation offers lessons for rural hospitals and clinics.

Person filling out a health insurance claim.

Telehealth from home to be added to Medicare Advantage plan's benefits under new rule

By Susan Morse 02:59 pm October 29, 2018

Enrollment in MA is projected to increase by 11.5 percent, and the number of plans to increase by 600 next year.

Credit: University of Pittsburgh

Remote patient monitoring via smartphone cuts one-week post-partum visits by 57%

By Bill Siwicki 02:19 pm October 12, 2018

This case study shows how UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital accomplished that reduction by sending new mothers home with a free blood pressure cuff and access to a remote monitoring portal.