At one of Dr. Yellowlees’s Health Informatics seminars, Dr. Nesbitt led us on a tour of UC Davis Health System’s newest buildings, the Center for Health & Technology at UC Davis. This multi-story building includes some amazing new methods of improving education, including virtual endoscopy, mannequins that breathe, and even tele-medical...
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Telehealth involves incorporating care beyond traditional clinics and hospitals, and into two more domains: (1) at home, (2) in the community. Thomas Nesbitt, MD MPH, at the University of California, Davis, spoke at UC Davis’s most recent monthly Health IT seminar covering the future of telehealth. I covered some of the questions concerning telehealth in...
Read MoreUC Davis: What is the future of telehealth? (part 1)
Numerous industry and economic changes are causing healthcare to incorporate telehealth and mobile health technologies. Thomas Nesbitt, MD MPH, at the University of California, Davis, spoke at our most recent monthly Health IT seminar covering the future of telehealth. He declared that the shortage of physicians, President Obama’s Affordable Care Act with...
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