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Volume 4, 2019

Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT), is an open access online, international peer review journal where strategic thought leaders, new-era practitioners, and future society stakeholders converge to unveil solutions in a new health and technology sector. TMT assists building knowledge and consensus for launching and scaling delivery services to achieve sustainable outcomes. The journal publishes research articles and commentaries related to innovations in patient-centered care, advances in program implementation, outcomes, process improvement, financial impact, and clinical research applications across the care continuum in a new era of value based care. A world-class peer-review board endeavors to offer rapid, peer-review (14 days), and includes constructive commentary to strengthen work. The online only journal is published on a continuous basis in order to accelerate sharing of rigorously vetted theoretical and experiential knowledge required for a growth sector.

The audience for Telehealth and Medicine Today includes leadership hospitals and medical research centers, payer organizations, researchers, innovators, medical directors, IT/IS, healthcare providers, and academicians. In addition, biopharma and device companies are represented. Anyone with an interest in can freely access Telehealth and Medicine Today for information on the implementation and advances on the horizon in the specialty.

Published: 2019-04-23

Review Articles

Nurse Practitioners and Virtual Care: A 50-State Review of APRN Telehealth Law and Policy

Kelli M. Garber, Katherine E. Chike-Harris
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Research & Innovation

Direct-to-Consumer Virtual Urgent Care: A Descriptive Study and Outline for Common Practice Management Decisions

Christopher B. Davis, Dickson Cheung, Richard Klasco, Kelly Bookman, Sean S. Michael, Richard Zane, Jennifer Wiler
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Research Article: Use Case/Pilot/Methodology

Using the BELT Framework to Implement an mHealth Pilot Project for Preventative Screening and Monitoring of Pregnant Women in Rural Burkina Faso, Africa

Antonia Arnaert, Norma Ponzoni, Hamidou Sanou, Noufou Gustave Nana
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Bringing Specialty Telebehavioral Medicine Home: Feasibility of a Quality Improvement Pilot for Medically Complex Patients

Lillian M. Christon, Jennifer Correll, Wendy Balliet, Eva R. Serber, Sharlene Wedin, Rebecca Kilpatrick, Lauren Holland-Carter, Stacey Maurer, Jimmy McElligott, Kelly Barth, Jeffrey Borckardt
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Feasibility of Recommending mHealth Solutions to Patients Receiving Virtual Primary Care

David McCune, Erin Graf, Jo Masterson, Amanda Cuda
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Methodologies, Original Market Research

Telehealth Finance Variables and Successful Business Models

Bryan T. Arkwright, Monica Leslie, Morgan Light
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Maximizing Your Telehealth Return on Investment (ROI): Five Best Practices to Increase Billing and Reimbursement

Bryan T. Arkwright, Monica Leslie Nash
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Perspective, Opinion, and Commentary on a Current Issue Impacting the Sector

Telehealth: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Success

Claude J. Pirtle, Kathryn Payne, Brian C. Drolet
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Healthcare Providers Are Missing Opportunities to Capture Data that Support Population Health Programs

Allison M. Hart
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ConV2X Innovation Ignition Competition:

A Behind-Scenes Discussion with Innovators in Healthcare in Technology

John Russo, Jr.
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TMT Hosts ConVerge2Xcelerate (#ConV2X) 2019 Annual Conference

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Converge2Xcelerate (#ConV2X) challenges audiences to catalyze and change healthcare using blockchain technology, telehealth, and converging technologies to build consensus for new healthcare solutions and reduces costs for health systems and health consumers. Top world authorities share business cases, pilots, and scaled use, to demonstrate the impact of new and vetted solutions to address challenges in healthcare.

The conference cuts straight to the practicality of initiatives using the HBS Case Method with panelists. Where possible, the bottom line financial impact of initiatives is shared along with “how to” guidance for replicating similar outcomes.

Each year, a current and topical theme is selected to find solutions to current challenges in healthcare and build consensus and understanding for them. This year #ConV2X 2019 presents “Proving Market Value with Pragmatic Innovation in Healthcare.”

The conference is collegiate in essence. No titles or corporate affiliations are featured on badges. This encourages all participants at all levels to share relevant experiences with new or known community members.

Professionally moderated Debates are a conference staple, as top authorities elucidate arguments, pro and con, addressing controversial issues and topics. The Innovation Ignition Competition brings you tomorrow’s investment opportunities with startups competing for mind share and exposure, to VCs, and leading tech labs.

#ConV2X welcomes all stakeholders in the ecosystem to facilitate dialogue, build alliances, educate, and bolster pioneering efforts in industry.

Click here for conference details.

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We are excited to share the ATA has endorsed the peer reveiw journals Telehealth and Medicine Today and Blockhain in Healthcare Today.

“Blockchain is a key driving force behind maintaining accurate, actionable healthcare data – and is an important component of where we’re headed in telehealth. The ATA is delighted to collaborate with Partners in Digital Health, as the benefits of blockchain technology are critical to our members’ success in the future,” stated Ann Mond Johnson, CEO, ATA.

The academic portfolio’s editor-in-chief, John Halmaka, MD, International Healthcare Innovation Professor, Harvard Medical School, added “We are happy to collaborate with the ATA to catalyze local and global initiatives and use cases to move health, delivery, and education forward, with telehealth and blockchain technology.”

“Pushing the confines of pragmatic healthcare innovation and academic publication practices, these journals fill gaps with editorial missions poised for the next frontier in health and care around the world,” stated Tory Cenaj, Founder, Partners in Digital Health.

To learn more, go to https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=235605

Stay tuned for more news and initiatives in the near future...!

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We invite to you to submit a manuscript to Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) peer review journal, dedicated to virtual care, telecare, telemedicine, and converging innovative technologies in healthcare.

TMT - a leading open-access international peer-review journal for strategic thought leaders, new-era practitioners, and future society stakeholders engaged in global innovations fostering ecosystem efficiencies in virtual care, telecare, and telehealth utilizing evidence-based outcomes. The journal is published on a continuous basis in order to accelerate sharing of rigorously vetted theoretical and experiential knowledge required for an exciting growth sector. 

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts, use cases, unpublished research, and defensible opinions on a broad spectrum of topics such as:

  • New Business Models, Provider strategies, incentive models, future society transformation strategies, hardware, software and technology selection, financial Impact to health systems and patient out-of-pocket cost, scalability, sustainability
  • Technology: Blockchain and DLT, artificial intelligence, robotics, voice interface tech, augmented reality, machine learning, identity management, smart contracts, security, interoperability, standards, scalability, business continuity
  • USE CASES: use case discovery frameworks, use case roadmaps, key learnings from successful and unsuccessful experiences
  • Legal and Regulatory: Reimbursement, reduced hospital readmissions, interoperability, mobile health, devices, EMR, health and wellness consumer protection, health policy, patient privacy (GDPR and HIPAA)
  • HEALTH IT: Electronic health records (EHR), health information exchange (HIE), interoperatbility, claim adjudication, clinical trials, medical devices, Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, sensors, smart health cities and medically fit homes
  • Home Care: Long-term care, care giver strategies, remote health, smart cities, sensors, workforce
  • Drug Discovery: Protocol development, clinical study management, devices, sensors, data aggregation,
  • Security and Governance: Oversight, workflow, staffing solutions, recruitment, scaling, monitoring, and maintaining of security systems
  • Trending Specialties: Population health, chronic condition management, behavioral health, Tele-dermatology, Tele-radiology, Tele-pathology, smart cities and ecosystems for mid-life and beyond
  • USER EXPERIENCE: market and user segmentation, generational demographics, consumerization of healthcare, behavioral considerations, user centered design, adoption drivers and barriers, Return-on-Adoption
  • EDUCATION: Training tools & tips - the fundamentals, innovation management, managing digital transformation, future workforce, medical education

Authors can include relevant software code and data in the peer review process by uploading it to TMT’s Code Ocean computational reproducibility workflow; and strengthen the validity, attribution, and trust-based reputation of their work with TMT’s ARTiFACTS.ai service option, a purpose built blockchain-enabled platform for academic and scientific research and development.

A no-deadline, continuous, two-week submission-to-decision turnaround by a world-class peer-review board includes constructive commentary and offers the opportunity for authors to strengthen their work.

To submit, click here, or go to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com//index.php/journal/about/submissions

Have questions? Contact us, or send email to info@partnersindigitalhealth.com

Happy to help you join this exciting international community of innovations and ecosystem efficiencies in virtual care, telecare, telehealth, and converging technologies transforming healthcare.

We look forward to your submission.
 
Sincerely,

TMT Team

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It's here...the #ConV2X TMT Podcast Issue is now LIVE!!!

The event's single objective was to accelerate healthcare's pragmatic adoption of new technologies by informing, inspiring, and debating, the role and value of technology innovation to health systems, healthcare workforce, and patients around the world.

#ConV2X provided an opportunity to share theoretical and pragmatic, experiential knowledge, and converge, as equal shareholders in society's future. Click here to find unedited audio, presentations where available, sponsor page, and photos, with links to speaker photos, and the 2nd Annual Innovation Ignition Competition.

 

2018-11-30

Partners in Digital Health, publisher of  Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) has announced a partnership with Orvium, the first decentralized social platform for scientific collaboration, funding, and publications management based on blockchain and artificial Intelligence. TMT will be the first journal to run on the new Orvium decentralized platform.
 
Manuel Martin, CEO and Co-founder of Orvium, said, “This represents another significant milestone for our platform as we move into this next exciting phase of development. Having a major journal like ‘Telehealth and Medicine Today’ as the first to go through our decentralized platform is a strong vote of confidence from a major publisher, and underlines the credentials of our platform.”

Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Orvium is a new open-source decentralized platform which aims to revolutionize the speed with which the academic review process takes place, incentivizing peer review on the blockchain through tokenized economic and reputational rewards. With a team drawn from CERN, NASA, Amazon, Oracle, and others, Orvium uses several cutting-edge technologies, including blockchain and artificial intelligence, to drastically reduce the long and often costly process of having research published by traditional publishing houses. The project aims to make scientific data more accessible while giving researchers more control over their work and distribution rights.

TMT Welcomes John Halamka, MD, to Board

 2018-07-23

Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) is proud to welcome Dr. John D. Halamka MD, CIO of the Beth Israel Deaconess System and International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, as editor-in-chief. Dr. Halamka joins Dr. Jane Barratt, Secretary General, IFA, and Douglas Shinsato, Regent, University of Hawaii Board of Regents, and co-founder, Anthill Ventures.
 
TMT continues to introduce many new facets to the journal’s profile since its launch as market disruptor in 2016.
 
“Telemedicine and telecare will see exponential growth in the next year as healthcare systems adopt value based purchasing contracts and feel the urgency to improve quality while reducing costs. There is no better time to communicate the successes and failures of early adopters. TMT is the perfect place to share experiences with the community" stated Dr. Halamka. His biography may be viewed here.

As a new journal launching on an open source peer review platform, TMT encourages scholarly manuscript submissions that present leading edge innovations and outcomes in a field perceived as tired by some. Although legislation lags, digital health and new technologies continue to fuel change in the healthcare sector.

Telehealth and Medicine Today publishes articles on a continuous basis. As articles are accepted, they are published to ensure timely and accurate reflections of developments to assist building rapid consensus and adoption by the community.

To submit an original manuscript to TMT, register first, then upload your manuscript submission at https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/user/register

The journal staff welcomes questions and feedback. Please reach out to info@partnersindigitalhealth.com

Read more TMT announcements here.

 

 

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Telehealth and Medicine Today has partnered with Code Ocean. Authors can now transparently share code associated with their research, with readers.

Code Ocean, is a cloud based computational reproducibility platform, where researchers, engineers, developers, and scientists can upload code and data in any open source programming language and link working code in a computational environment within an article. The journal encourages authors and readers to share articles to broaden the sector's knowledge base. The initiative will also assist in reducing negative results, and ideally, accelerate time to market.

The Code Ocean platform can also be used to include an executable copy of an author's code for the peer review process.

Partners in Digital Health and Code Ocean will work towards the integration of Code Ocean into the journal submission and peer review workflow, where code and data is used. Authors will upload their code and data, within a cloud based computational environment, to create an executable “compute capsule” that can reproduce their results. A compute capsule will get a DOI and be embedded within the article upon the manuscript’s publication, enabling readers to view and verify the article’s results. Authors can upload and submit code and data associated with their article. Users can execute the code, view results, and modify the code to see how results change.

Partners in Digital Health joins distinguished Code Ocean publishing partners De Gruyter, Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis, and BMJ Publishing Group.

  

ARTiFACTS Partnership:

TMT is committed to advancing the use of blockchain in scholarly publishing. Under this partnership, ARTiFACTS and TMT will  work together to integrate blockchain technology into the scholarly publishing workflow and collaborate on research to assess the effectiveness of the technology as a tool to improve speed, collaboration, access, transparency, and attribution in scholarly research.

TMT will make its content available on the ARTiFACTS platform and will also provide access for its author/researcher community to start using the platform to establish proof of existence for research outputs, share research artifacts, and provide and receive immutable attribution in real-time during their research. Authors will benefit from the ability to easily and securely share in-process work to speed collaboration and enhance their reputation as research is conducted.