Andrea Kline-Tilford, PhD, CPNP-AC/PC, FCCM, discusses nursing innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic, advances in vaccines for children, and whether in-school or virtual school is better for children.
For telemedicine to thrive in a postpandemic era, temporary rules regarding reimbursement and providers’ ability to fully care for the patient in any setting must be made permanent.
A desire to continue using telehealth was associated with having received support/instruction and having a care partner to help.
Marvin A. Rossi, MD, PhD, discusses strategies for optimizing epilepsy telehealth visits.
Erin Fecske, DNP, APRN, presents a model for optimizing in-home and facilitated epilepsy telehealth visits at AES2020.
The researchers found that old age is a factor independently associated with fewer completed telemedicine visits.
Healthcare providers should take steps now to ensure that the telehealth modalities they use are HIPAA compliant.
Training NP students in telepsychiatry should be implemented before entry into clinical practice to provide adequate services to patients in rural and medically underserved areas.
Researchers sought to investigate the feasibility of regular systematic case reviews through telepsychiatric consultation to improve workforce training and development within rural primary care clinics.
Naoto Kuroda, MD, of Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan, provided a checklist for clinicians about what they should ask and look out for in a telemedicine session with patients with epilepsy.
