Connected Health: A Review Of Technologies And Strategies To Improve Patient Care With Telemedicine And Telehealth

With the advent of national health reform, millions more Americans are gaining access to a health care system that is struggling to provide high-quality care at reduced costs. The increasing adoption of electronic technologies is widely recognized as a key strategy for making health care more cost-e...

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Published in:Health Affairs 2014-02, Vol.33 (2), p.194-199
Main Authors: Kvedar, Joseph, Coye, Molly Joel, Everett, Wendy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to education
Accountable care organizations
Activities of daily living
Advocacy
Baby boomers
Chronic illnesses
Cost
Cost control
Cost reduction
Diabetes
Health care
Health care access
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health policy
Heart failure
Hospitals
Medical service
Nurses
Partnership
Patient admissions
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Patient satisfaction
Patients
Physicians
Primary care
Professionals
Quality of care
Studies
Teams
Technology
Technology adoption
Telemedicine
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Summary:With the advent of national health reform, millions more Americans are gaining access to a health care system that is struggling to provide high-quality care at reduced costs. The increasing adoption of electronic technologies is widely recognized as a key strategy for making health care more cost-effective. This article examines the concept of connected health as an overarching structure for telemedicine and telehealth, and it provides examples of its value to professionals as well as patients. Policy makers, academe, patient advocacy groups, and private-sector organizations need to create partnerships to rapidly test, evaluate, deploy, and pay for new care models that use telemedicine. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0992