Patient Access

Chris Wickersham, director of customer support at health IT consulting firm CereCore, discusses patient portals in the age of COVID-19 and in the future.

Matthew Fisher, general counsel at Carium, talks about bedrock principles of patient privacy, advances in RPM, CMS rules around non-physiologic data and how telehealth should fit into the continuum of care going forward.

In this episode of the Virtual Care Paradigm, Nathaniel Lacktman, partner at Foley and Lardner LLP, weighs in on the ways regulation can facilitate, not stifle, digital health innovation – and how providers can keep up with changes to come.

Telehealth can reach underserved communities, but there are barriers. A concerted effort is needed to increase its adoption and efficacy in a post-pandemic world, explain HIMSS' Rob Havasy and Kerry Amato.

Zoom CIO Advisor Bill Shickolovich and U Penn Medicine CIO Michael Restuccia discuss how hospitals are using remote tools to enable employees to work at home.

This week's top stories include Amazon expanding its hybrid virtual/in-person care; Cityblock raising money to expand its platform for Medicaid and low-income populations; and AHIP wanting more time for insurers to implement a surprise billing rule.

OptumServe Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Dev Kalyan, MD, discusses the challenges of managing the Military Health System and Veterans Health Administration while providing a seamless patient experience across the digital and physical space.

Andrew Goldberg, a Cox Communications VP, says Trapollo is working with providers and payers to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes through remote monitoring solutions.

HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock and KLAS' Dan Czech walk through a checklist for telehealth software success.

Telehealth Connection TV: VA CIO Dominic Cussatt describes how the agency was well-positioned to offer telemedicine to patients when the pandemic hit.