June 15, 2021
COVID-19 accelerated the need for innovative approaches to delivering care remotely. This presentation highlights opportunities for providers and health plans to leverage telehealth collaboratively. The session includes reviewing how the pandemic changed telehealth policy, allowing for increased access to telehealth services and how a post-pandemic policy environment looks.
Discussion of how compassionate technology and timely human interventions can create a scalable solution addressing loneliness and improving health outcomes for vulnerable patients historically forgotten by technology will be addressed with how to strategically and tactically implement telehealth and technology initiatives.
Objectives of the session include:
- Review how regulations controlling the traditional delivery of healthcare create challenges to adopting telehealth services and how policymakers can implement policy changes to promote the adoption of innovative telehealth solutions.
- Discuss how disrupting traditional thinking about technology for member engagement to focus on whole-person applications can close gaps in care and save plans unnecessary ED and hospitalizations.
- Identifying how health plans use clinical and financial data to assess new initiatives.
- Describing the case for implementing telehealth solutions to overcome the challenges of accessing care.
- President of Atrómitos, Michealle Gady, JD, spoke with Kathy Oestreich, Vice President and CEO for Banner University Health Plans (retired), and Cindy Jordan, CEO and Founder of Pyx Health.
