Mobile Medication Management Improves Performance
G. Cameron Deemer reviews the benefits of mobile medication management and electronic prescribing, including fewer errors, cost savings, increased patient safety, and support of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP).
Trending Toward Home Care: Is Our Health System Ready?
The advancement of telemedicine and home-based technology presents both opportunities and challenges with respect to improving health care and making it safer.
Telemedicine at SNF Improves Care, Reduces Readmissions
Howard Guzik, MD, explains how the Northwell Health Stern Family Center for Rehabilitation uses telemedicine to reduce hospital readmissions.
Responding to a Changing Healthcare Environment
Aligning incentives among providers and exploring telehealth opportunities are two ways in which hospitals and health systems can respond and adapt to a changing environment.
hfm Magazine: February 2018
hfm Magazine: February 2018
Telebehavioral Health: The ROI for Long-Term Care
To understand the financial impact of telebehavioral health services in long-term care facilities, a study compared the financial performance of facilities with telehealth services with that of facilities without such services.
Telehealth: An Essential Element of Practice Transformation
Tom Toperczer explains the benefits of telehealth for small medical practices.
Crisis Behavioral Health Readiness
Geoffrey Boyce describes the benefits of putting telehealth infrastructure in place before a natural disaster or other crisis strikes.
How Telehealth Can Keep Care In-Network
Lee Horner explains how provider-to-provider communication using telehealth tools can help patients stay in-network.
Virtual Visits Come of Age
More organizations are launching virtual visits for outpatient care as a means of lowering the cost of delivering care, improving patient outcomes, and boosting physician satisfaction with their jobs.