Health systems are navigating the digital divide and vaccine access
Cleveland Clinic
Mossie Harper is vaccinated on Monday, March 8, at Cleveland Clinic s community-based vaccination clinic at the Langston Hughes Health and Education Center in Cleveland.
Shortly after University Hospitals opened online scheduling for the COVID-19 vaccine, hospital operators were fielding calls from patients without email or internet asking, How am I supposed to schedule a vaccine?
UH was able to quickly identify this gap thanks to the manager of hospital operators raising the alarm bell, as well as doctors hearing similar questions from their patients, said Dr. Robyn Strosaker, chief operating officer of UH Cleveland Medical Center.
Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition Virtual care is not a panacea, said panelists at the American Telemedicine Association s EDGE policy conference, so action must be taken to ensure no one is being left behind.
February 02, 2021
As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible.
Telehealth was held up as a panacea, said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association s EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.