Telehealth

To assess telehealth’s role in the COVID-19 response, researchers analyzed data from the nation’s largest telehealth provider along with commercial and Medicare Advantage claims. They found that integrating near real-time telehealth data into public health reporting modestly improved 14-day forecasts of COVID-19 cases and mortality and revealed how differences in clinical management between telehealth and urgent care evolved as care delivery adapted to uncertainty and shifting guidelines.

The 2020 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference, “Telehealth and Emergency Medicine: A Consensus Conference to Map the Intersection of Emergency Medicine and Telehealth” developed a research agenda to support future clinical practice and evidence-based investigation at the intersection of telehealth and emergency medicine.

This study tested the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of a novel telemedicine application that incorporates a virtual pharmacist into the delivery of patient-centered palliative care.

This research evaluated a telemedicine program that allows specialist evaluation of a stroke patient in an ambulance by connecting paramedics to the specialist, and identified both facilitators and barriers to its use, with proposed remediations.

This project will examine the quality and safety impact of patient-initiated telemedicine visits with primary care providers.

This study examined parent and provider experiences and care costs for in-person, hybrid, and all-virtual pediatric physiatry models in rural and underserved communities, concluding that the hybrid model—where therapists and patients are onsite and the pediatric physiatrist is present via telehealth—offers a high-quality, acceptable, and cost-effective alternative.