At the Connected Health Conference, two medical experts — Dr. Andrew Watson, president of the American Telemedicine Association, and Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, an associate professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School — debated whether the cost of telemedicine outweighs the benefits.
India is the latest country where it offers physicians the ability to consult with UPMC specialists in oncology, pulmonology and other specialty areas. It will also add Afghanistan later this month to a growing list of countries where it offers the service.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Although the HIMSS14 conference hummed with conversations about population health, applications for big data and tools for physicians to remotely monitor and engage patients more effectively, personal health records didn’t seem to be a significant talking point. That disappointed Dr. Andrew Watson, a surgeon at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who is also a CMIO […]