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Case Study How Clarke County Hospital is Expanding Its Telehealth Services into Home Monitoring Covid-19 Patients

On June 10, Clarke County Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Osceola, Iowa, was awarded by the Federal Communications Commission, $170,072 as part of the agency’s COVID-19 Telehealth Pr

‘Automated Hovering’ App Helps Manage COVID-19 Patients at Home

Monitoring confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients at home and remaining in regular contact can be a challenge, but the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) has come up with an automated text messaging system that has been working effectively.

Committee leaders release telehealth proposals

House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released separate legislative proposals that would make permanent certain Medicare telehealth flexibilities allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Convergence: The Virtual Health Care Supply Chain (Re-engineering the Health Care Supply Chain: A CQO Thought Leader Discussion Series)

Join thought leaders as they discuss the virtual world and its impact on the health care supply chain.

Will Machine Learning Help Health Care and Policymakers Solve the Pandemic?

Harvard University’s Kennedy School, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the United Nations recently collaborated on a platform to produce a decision-making tool that initially will focus on digital contact tracing of coronavirus infections. The platform, which could be operational by September, will identify secondary and tertiary effects of workforce availability and product/supply shortages across critical infrastructure sectors.

How to Check the Pulse of Your Digital Behavioral Health Efforts

At the peak of New York state’s COVID-19 outbreak, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx was at the epicenter. For the behavioral health center, that meant greatly expanding its already innovative use of digital solutions to connect with its patients. This would be needed to continue to serve the 250 to 300 behavioral health patients the center typically sees each day.
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Applying FCC Funds for Home Monitoring Under COVID-19

AHA has tracked the stories of several rural community hospitals as part of our coverage of COVID-19. Those stories and their podcasts may be found on the AHA website.

Penn Medicine’s COVID-19 Sprint Innovations Provide Key Lessons

Like hospitals and health systems everywhere, Penn Medicine scrambled to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. But it didn’t take long for its leaders to come up with an iterative sprint process to quickly design, validate and scale much-needed services.

Is Your Telehealth Program Built for the New Health Care World?

A funny thing happened on the way to telehealth’s rapid exponential rise in use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many hospitals and health systems that had been refining their virtual care services and platforms at a methodical pace suddenly had to quickly ramp up access to technology platforms and train clinicians on the platforms, patient-monitoring tools and messaging apps.

AONL, other stakeholders urge action on telehealth

In a letter to Congress, the AONL joined 340 stakeholders urging the nation’s leaders to make the telehealth flexibilities authorized during the COVID-19 pandemic permanent.