With the explosion in the use of telehealth technologies, it is essential to address the challenges in global telehealth inequity in order to create a path to healthcare equality. …

Among its many side effects, the COVID-19 pandemic left several positive results. …

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the utilization of telemedicine now offered an alternative diagnostic and treatment resource to providers in many areas of medicine including oncology and cancer genetics. This care option paired with genetic testing labs’ ability to send saliva-based DNA collection kits to patients…

Background: Reducing Length of Stay (LOS) is an important way for hospitals to improve emergency department (ED) costs and outcomes. Psychiatric patients represent a challenge to reducing LOS as the scarcity of psychiatric specialists leads to longer LOS. …

Background: Telemedicine creates the opportunity — in pandemic conditions and otherwise — to spread health care to regions where intensivists and health services may not beavailable. It offers the opportunity to provide better patient care, decrease healthcare costs, and overall improve population health. Introduction: Critical care telemedicine has increased in…

This article discusses the penetration of telemedicine in Latin America in relation to its implementation by hospitals in the region, considering key Latin American hospital markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It gives an overview of the hospitals, the challenges they face in implementing telemedicine and telehealth…

Each year, Telehealth and Medicine Today asks experts in the field to share their insights into the future and predict how telehealth will influence uptake and healthcare in the new year. There are three goals for telehealth: raise access to healthcare for our most vulnerable patients, achieve reimbursement parity that…

While the past 50 years have been categorized as the Information or Digital Age, the mass amounts of digitized data has been sorely underutilized. It was only recently through the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated efforts were sought to harness this data with the use of blockchain technology in healthcare. Through…

Abstract: This research work proposes a method for managing, securing, and validating the health data distribution records using a genetic-based hashing algorithm in a decentralized environment. …