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John Sharp, director of Thought Advisory at HIMSS, gathers feedback on virtual visits from patient advocates.
Holly Davis, Bingham Healthcare CNO, says that while funding and data gaps exist, mobile phones, telemedicine and satellite internet mean that care is not as inaccessible in rural areas as healthcare leaders may think.
UCHealth's Brittany Cyriacks explains how the health system developed a virtual nursing command center enhanced by an AI tool that searches patient records for signs of deterioration and rolled it out to all 15 of its hospitals.
The federal program could be a short-term patch for struggling rural hospitals or the last chance to move rural healthcare onto a model that works at scale. Michael Dalton of non-profit virtual care provider Ovatient explains.