Past telehealth events

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' HRSA hosted the National Telehealth Conference to facilitate discussions among public and private sector leaders regarding telehealth best practices and its integration into the standard of care. The conference covered topics such as improving health equity through telehealth adoption and broadband connectivity, integrating tele-behavioral health, using telehealth to strengthen the health care workforce, and the implications of health policy on telehealth's future in health care.

This session discusses the digital health tool landscape and its impact on enhancing health care quality. Topics include: exploring digital health and quality improvement to transform health care delivery and understanding the potential impact on health care outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Learn how a community health center successfully implemented innovative telehealth solutions, including kiosks for telehealth and social services, computer classes for the elderly, homeless outreach clinics, and an affordable connectivity program.

This session uncovers the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in disease diagnosis, with a focus on diabetic retinopathy, and the challenges faced. Attendees learn about AI's benefits, how to overcome limitations, and insights into billing and reimbursement.

This presentation highlights the implementation of patient-focused clinical decision support tools using modern, interoperable technologies, showcasing their potential to enhance clinical workflow, outcomes, and care quality.

This project, conducted by the Rural Telehealth Evaluation Center, aims to investigate the expansion of telehealth services. By analyzing a 20% random sample of national Medicare claims, the project aims to examine the extent of telehealth utilization and its impact on reducing health disparities, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The webinar focuses on discussing current initiatives and models of patient support and Telehealth Access Points (TAPs). The webinar highlights three innovative TAP models that aimed to increase access to telehealth in their communities. Attendees learn about addressing broadband inequities, promoting health care access options, and building collaborative partnerships.

In this webinar, experts discus the increasing recognition of patient social complexity by value-based pay programs. They explore how providers are using telehealth to measure social determinants of health, screen and implement strategies to drive equity and sustainability in payer and health system approaches.

In this webinar, attendees explore the landscape of telehealth legislative and policy changes beyond the public health emergency. The session specifically delves into the virtual prescribing of controlled substances, regulatory oversight, drug advertising, and the importance of establishing digital equity infrastructure.

In this session, participants receive valuable tools to assess their current billing reimbursement processes and plan for future sustainability.

During the session, a novel approach was shared that provided critical assessments and care for neonates after difficult deliveries using telemedicine. The learning objectives included identifying barriers to optimal care for neonatal encephalopathy in rural areas, learning about strategies such as telemedicine to evaluate neonatal encephalopathy and improve the parent experience, and understanding how telemedicine applications were being expanded to other types of care in newborns and children.

In this session, participants learn how to effectively identify and utilize essential telehealth resources to stay informed about the latest regulations and requirements. The session provides guidance on navigating these resources, empowering telehealth providers to maintain up-to-date knowledge in their practice.

This panel discussion explores the utilization of digital health technologies for improving health care outcomes among underserved populations. Experts shared their research findings on the benefits of innovative digital health interventions in reducing health disparities and enhancing the quality of care for diverse patient populations.

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching vulnerable and high-risk populations, such as those in prisons, nursing homes, group facilities, and isolated rural areas, was a major challenge. This presentation shares best practices, critical lessons learned, and opportunities to advance new, cost-effective telehealth models of care.

In this webinar, attendees can explore the various types of metrics available for assessing the impact of telemedicine programs, the fundamentals of implementation sciences in program assessment, and discover strategies to enhance the effectiveness of telemedicine programs through impact measurement.

Watch this webinar for an in-depth conversation about remote patient monitoring. This session includes a discussion with HRSA, focusing on agencies invested in remote patient monitoring, remote therapeutic monitoring, and continuous monitoring.

This webinar reviews harm reduction strategies when providing telehealth care. Specifically, topics include developing harm reduction conversation skills, sharing the most common harm reduction tools, and assessing the optimal way to distribute harm reduction tools.

This presentation examines the current state of rural health in America at a national level, with a focus on opportunities and barriers for expanding health care access. Current relevant national policy research and data explores the current state of rural health access, as well as policy options under consideration to address these health care disparities.

During the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the utilization of virtual care challenged and forced numerous health system to respond immediately. Certain systems with a foundation of telehealth services were able to rapidly expand and deploy to meet the increasing needs and demands of their patients and families. In this webinar, presenters review the care delivery models, growth of system and patients, and the responses applied for answering the care needs across the United States and internationally.

This webinar covers the creation and testing of health data visualization within a digital health care system. Attendees learn about the development of an application that displays real-time visualizations for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, which aims to improve patient care decisions. Additionally, there will be a discussion on the development and evaluation of a shared decision-making dashboard for presenting individualized risks of harm from a drug-drug interaction.

This webinar covers The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General’s Seven Fundamental Elements of an Effective Compliance Program and recommends tips for applying these elements in your organization. In addition, information on the latest Office of the Inspector General updates on telehealth will be provided.

Telehealth Research Centers of Excellence or TRACE were established in 2021 through Federal grants. The funding sought to advance research on the role of telehealth in improving cancer-related care. This webinar was the final session of a National Cancer Institute 2022 webinar series focused on telehealth and cancer and the identification of research gaps and opportunities for the use of telehealth in cancer prevention and control.

The use of telehealth to support pre- and post-natal care continues to grow. Hosted by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau, this webinar highlights ways telehealth improves care coordination and health outcomes for pregnant women and new mothers.

Health care providers are encouraged to prepare for sustainable telehealth programs and adapt reimbursement policies to current telehealth practices. In this webinar, regulatory overview of health care provider reimbursements will be presented, along with a case study that demonstrates adjustments to services, practice processes, and training to plan for financial support for the continuity of telehealth care. Reimbursement mechanisms that correspond with the telehealth program will be outlined to show how it can be financially sustained.

HRSA's Telehealth Learning Webinar Series, which aims to promote telehealth technologies for healthcare delivery and education, featured a panel of experts who will discuss the use of technology to address provider stress and promote health care workforce resilience by sharing best practices and promising examples.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act aims to help improve access to affordable, high-speed internet. This Health Resources and Services Administration Learning Series highlights federal connectivity programs funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Federal Communications Commission, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In this webinar, attendees learn from the successes and challenges of providing behavioral health services via telemedicine. Learning objectives include learning and applying strategies to manage behavioral health crisis through telemedicine, identifying methods to assess patient success and program success, and highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of using telemedicine for behavioral health.

Although telehealth has expanded health care delivery nationwide, not all rural hospitals have telehealth service accessibility or efficiency. This presentation shares the contrast of rural hospitals fiscal performance with and without telehealth over a decade.

In this webinar, an expert panel discusses the use of digital health care interventions to improve the diagnosis and treatment of adult depression with emphasis on the importance of patient engagement in collecting accurate information.

This webinar explores the utilization of telehealth in school-based programs. It highlights the collaboration between Medicaid and Education departments in ensuring that children receive necessary services.

This webinar is part of the National Cancer Institute's webinar series on the role of telehealth in the delivery of cancer care. This recording describes how telehealth can be an effective tool to understand and reduce health disparities in cancer prevention and treatment.

This webinar highlights how telehealth is being used to advance provider education across a range of services including training providers on caring for older adults, teaching providers in rural areas to deliver pediatric dental care, and mentoring community health workers to support treatment for opioid use disorder.

This is the third in a series of five webinars sponsored by the National Cancer Institute focused on the role of telehealth in cancer care. This session reviews current and emerging trends in the use of telehealth to facilitate the delivery of cancer care across different populations and care settings.

With the adaption of digital access and technological innovation, there has been a shift in the consumer-driven experience across industries, including health care. This presentation discusses how health organizations nationwide have learned from various industries such as eCommerce to implement modern technology into their practices to improve the health care system.

The second in a series of webinars sponsored by the National Cancer Institute focused on the role of telehealth in advancing cancer care, this webinar focuses on the role of telehealth in patient-provider communication. Presenters review existing research on ways telehealth may introduce challenges to effective patient-provider communication for cancer care and that may decrease patient satisfaction with telehealth.

Telehealth continues to serve as a tool to benefit and improve health care access, and health care providers seek out opportunities to advance this resource. The Northeast Telehealth Resource Center has provided a new, accessible virtual visit training tool for providers. This webinar supports providers seeking to achieve quality in telehealth care.

In 2022, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) hosted a series of five webinars focused on the role of telehealth in cancer care. This webinar, the first in the series, summarizes NCI-funded activities to advance research related to the role of telehealth in the delivery of cancer care.