telemedicine

Andrea Harding, Sr. Director Operations & Strategy, and Anthony Wylie, DO, Sr. Medical Director, Geisinger at Home.  Geisinger at Home provides team-based comprehensive and acute care in the home for Geisinger Health Plan’s most complex members across Northeast and Central Pennsylvania. Geisinger’s approach combines in-person, facilitated telemedicine, telemonitoring, outbound care coordination, and nurse triage to improve quality and manage...

Peter A. Rasmussen, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, CCAW JV, LLC, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic.  Digital health and telemedicine had made some inroads into traditional healthcare delivery systems prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Innovative strategies have existed for quite some time to use internet connected devices to promote virtual chronic disease monitoring.  By removing regulatory barriers, reimbursement gaps, and privacy concerns, COVID-19 has accelerated...

Samuel C. Thomas, MD, MS, Fellow Population Health, Delivery Science, Primary Care, and Maja Artandi, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, and Christopher (Topher) Sharp, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford Medicine. To address the rising number of cases of COVID-19, Stanford has been successful in rapidly scaling telemedicine capacity, creating drive-through testing, and building novel workflows for management of PUI...

Michael Tutty, PhD, Group VP, Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability, American Medical Association (AMA).  In the last three months there have been tremendous changes and challenges to the physician profession arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.  From those clinicians working on the frontlines to those struggling with reduced clinical workloads, healthcare is in turmoil.  Michael presents his view from the...

Scott Rissmiller, MD, EVP & Chief Physician Executive, Atrium Health.  Atrium Health announced a new and innovative program to help appropriate patients who have been diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to receive safe and convenient treatment while they recover, in the comfort of their home. Atrium Health’s COVID-19 Virtual Hospital is designed to protect the patient’s health, the health...