Determining if Telehealth Can Reduce Health System Costs: Scoping Review

A scoping review of telehealth.

OBJECTIVES This scoping review of the telehealth literature over the past year was conducted to provide a snapshot of some of the current developments in the field. As with any scoping review, only a subset of papers was examined, and the rigorous methods of a systematic review are not applied. METHODS We surveyed selected dimensions of the current literature, specifically targeting telehealt...

Incarcerated Girls’ Physical Health: Can the Juvenile Justice System Help to Reduce Long-Term Health Costs?

What Health System Challenges Should Responsible Innovation in Health Address? Insights From an International Scoping Review

Background While responsible innovation in health (RIH) suggests that health innovations could be purposefully designed to better support health systems, little is known about the system-level challenges that it should address. The goal of this paper is thus to document what is known about health systems’ demand for innovations.   Methods We searched 8 databases to perfo...

Can disease management reduce health care costs by improving quality?

Disease management (DM) promises to achieve cost savings by improving the quality of care for chronic diseases. During the past decade the Permanente Medical Group in Northern California has implemented extensive DM programs. Examining quality indicators, utilization, and costs for 1996-2002 for adults with four conditions, we find evidence of substantial quality improvement but not cost saving...

Asynchronous telehealth: a scoping review of analytic studies

BACKGROUND Asynchronous telehealth captures clinically important digital samples (e.g., still images, video, audio, text files) and relevant data in one location and subsequently transmits these files for interpretation at a remote site by health professionals without requiring the simultaneous presence of the patient involved and his or her health care provider. Its utility in the health care ...