CCHP’s issue brief explores the benefits to using store-and-forward tele-dermatology, barriers to its use, and reasons why Medi-Cal has been slow to employ more telehealth-delivered dermatology.
CCHP’s collaborative project with the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI) identified barriers that prevented tele-ICUs from playing a key role in California’s health care.
This paper identifies three applications (and barriers) for telehealth technology in skilled nursing care settings that have had recent or ongoing studies that have shown preliminary promise: (1) Teleconsultation in Emergency Care, (2) Teleconsultation with Specialists, and (3) Remote Monitoring Technologies.
This report addresses the question, “would telestroke reduce costs for public payers?” in two different ways. The authors measured: (1) whether telestroke would reduce costs for current Medi-Cal and Medicare enrollees by decreasing the cost of care they receive in their lifetime after a stroke, and (2) whether the Medi-Cal and Medicare programs would experience savings from current and future enrollees by examining an average cohort of 100 telestroke patients.
This brief serves as an overview of the Healthcare Connect Fund (HCF), established in 2013, which directs up to $400 million annually from the Universal Service Fund toward supporting high capacity broadband services, designed to bring the benefits of telehealth to areas of the country in acute need of those services.
