Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health’s Chief Clinical Officer, Syed Hussain, MD, said newer forms of healthcare delivery, such as telehealth and home-care services have been helping retain its workforce, Yale Daily News reported March 27.
Category: telehealth
Ohio city taps Cleveland Clinic clinicians for telehealth EMS program
Akron, Ohio, has been working to reduce the load on its emergency services and ambulance fleet through a telehealth pilot program where patients can receive virtual care from clinicians at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, the Akron Beacon Journal report…
TikTok, telehealth fuel Ozempic shortage
TikTok and telehealth are driving a shortage of the weight-loss drug Ozempic, CNN reported March 17.
Why ChristianaCare wants to be the 'Amazon of healthcare'
Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare is offering patients a subscription service for virtual primary care services offering faster and more personalized care, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported March 16.
Mount Sinai, NYC libraries offer classes on accessing telehealth, health records
New York City-based Mount Sinai is partnering with the New York Public Library to offer digital literacy classes for individuals trying to access healthcare via telehealth or through electronic information technologies.
Mercy forms partnership to design hospital-at-home program
St. Louis-based Mercy is partnering with tech-focused at-home care company Maribel Health to develop new at-home care programs, including a hospital-at-home program.
Giannis Antetokounmpo launches new telehealth treatment campaign
The Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation, a foundation created by Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family, is partnering with telehealth company Antidote Health to provide free mental health telehealth services to Milwaukee residen…
The pandemic widened the rural-urban telehealth divide, VA finds
Fifty-five percent of VA patients in rural areas used telemedicine during the pandemic compared to 60 percent of patients in urban areas, according to a March 7 study published in JAMA Open Network.
Cerebral to patients: Personal information was shared with social media companies
Telehealth startup Cerebral sent letters to patients March 6 stating that some of their information may have been disclosed to social media companies when it used pixel tracking technologies on its mobile applications and websites, LegalScoops reported…
Telehealth can help with staff shortages, Providence says
As hospital emergency rooms are dealing with staffing shortages, a spokesperson for Providence Centralia (Wa.) Hospital told The Chronicle March 8 that 20 to 25 percent of patients coming into their emergency room could receive telehealth care.
