Virtual Care (266)

New care paradigms are nothing without new payment paradigms to make them work. Health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn weighs in on retail health, value-based care and what the virtual care economy might look like.

One of the most dominant areas of demand for telehealth is mental health. PCHA Managing Director Rob Havasy and Cloudbreak Health CEO Jamey Edwards join host Jonah Comstock to discuss the perils and potential of virtual care for behavioral health.

In the series premiere of The Virtual Care Paradigm, Sherpaa founder Jay Parkinson lays out the difference between the new world of asynchronous, tool-based virtual care and traditional video visit telehealth.

Dr. Maulik Majmudar, who developed Halo at Amazon and now serves as chief medical officer at Biofourmis, says remote patient monitoring must become remote patient management.

The Indian government has advocated the use of digital tools to accelerate virtual care, including telehealth, and address the shortage of hospital beds, says professor Krishnan Ganapathy, director of Apollo Telehealth Services, India.

FundamentalVR CEO Richard Vincent discusses the importance of providing diverse offerings for different surgical training use cases.

The senator describes the bipartisan interest in safeguarding access to telemedicine as "thrilling."

As a longtime telehealth advocate, the senator from Virginia says it will take a “sizeable federal commitment” to get Americans connected.

Innovations include digitally streaming application specialists into the operating room, says Dr. Atul Gupta, CMO of Philips' Image Guided Therapy business.

VA CIO Dominic Cussatt says the agency was well-positioned to offer telemedicine to patients.

In this episode of HIT Cybersecurity, Darren Lacey, chief information security officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, describes how healthcare providers can develop more forward-leaning strategy.

Amazon Care's primary and urgent care services will no longer be available only to the company's Washington employees; Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds form a new virtual healthcare company.