Tips for giving your organization a telehealth checkup.

Best practices in implementing a telehealth program.

To better address new Medicare regulations and reimbursement cuts, many home health agencies are considering whether to start offering telehealth services as a means of driving improved clinical outcomes and financial performance. This article outlines best practices in setting up a telehealth program, based on over 12 months of experience by According to the Philips National Study on Home Care...

P35: How to Manage Anxiety

Anxiety is a mental state that is elicited in anticipation of threat or potential threat. Sensations of anxiety are a normal part of human experience, but excessive or inappropriate anxiety can become an illness. Anxiety is part of the normal human experience. We may speculate that it served human survival during evolution by enhancing preparedness and alertness. However, anxious manifestations...

Delivering scalable Telehealth: ‘What is Scale?’ with case studies from NHS providers, a perspective on the challenges, constraints and issues associated with ‘scalability’

Introduction: With local and national evidence highlighting and confirming numerous benefits gained from implementing telehealth, why is it so hard to roll out the technology at scale? Solent NHS Trust has worked alongside Docobo Limited, since 2005, to successfully introduce telehealth to its patients and clinical staff. Our Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Heart Failure and Comm...

Is Telehealth Right for Your Practice and Your Patients With Asthma?

INTRODUCTION Telehealth services are becoming increasingly used to provide care to patients living in rural areas. Little is known about the patient satisfaction with the provision of these services. METHODS A prospective cohort pilot study was developed to evaluate the use of telehealth for the delivery of asthma education services in the rural, medically underserved community of Oakes, Nort...

For the dental patient.... Back-to-school checkup: send your child off to school with a healthy mouth.