This conference grant will support a multidisciplinary Think Tank to develop and disseminate telehealth best practices, training curriculum recommendations, and policy recommendations to support equitable and sustained telehealth access in the State of Michigan.
This research will improve upon and evaluate a telehealth lung cancer surveillance program that combines patient-reported outcomes and assessment of remotely completed surveillance lung imaging with telehealth visits, to reduce barriers to lung cancer surveillance care.
This research will study the implementation of Telehealth Education for Asthma Connecting Hospital and Home (TEACHH), a novel intervention designed to provide an effective asthma educational platform appropriate for all health literacy levels. The intervention includes initial instruction in the hospital and reinforcement at home using virtual visits to reduce barriers to self-management support for children who are hospitalized due to asthma.
This research, using data from the country’s largest telehealth provider and claims from a large commercial payer, will examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and telehealth on utilization, outcomes, disparities, and public health surveillance.
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.
This research evaluated the impact of a telerehabilitation approach among stroke survivors with aphasia, finding it was a cost-effective, feasible approach with high patient satisfaction.
