Telemedicine or telehealth has the potential to bring quality health care resources to patients in an efficient manner, but like many health care innovations, has gotten off to a slower start that many predicted. A Commonwealth Fund report on remote patient monitoring describes lessons from early adopters.
What is mHealth? And what impact will it have on health care? A new Deloitte Center for Health Solutions report attempts to provide answers and suggests that mHealth is transforming health care for the good. We’ll see.
Our first Potpourri in a while is as diverse and flamboyant as the fall colors, including items on the effectiveness of telemonitoring, the history of health “reform” in the United States, mortality and Medicaid eligibility expansions, continued issues with cost affecting access in Massachusetts and methods to help control imaging use.
The British Medical Informations and Decision Making Journal carries research comparing traditional and virtual consulations. Patient satisfaction is equivalent across the two methods and doctors are also accepting of virtual visits.
Our Potpourri resumes, with information on consumer trust of insurers and providers, consumer use of online health information, price transparency in health care, imaging rates in integrated health care systems and effectiveness of telephonic depression therapy.
About this Blog
The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at [email protected].
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