Expanding Patient Access to Quality Sleep Health Care through Telemedicine

Expanding Patient Access to Quality Sleep Health Care through Telemedicine.

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2016 In January the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) officially launched AASM SleepTM, a state-ofthe-art telemedicine platform that was designed specifically for the sleep field by the AASM. This milestone represents the dawn of a new era for sleep medicine. Through AASM SleepTM, the potential now exists for any patient in any state o...

Bringing care to the community: expanding access to health care in rural Malawi through mobile health clinics.

SETTING Malawi has chronic shortages of health workers, high burdens of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and malaria and a predominately rural population. Mobile health clinics (MHCs) could provide primary health care for adults and children in hard-to-reach areas. OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility, volume, and types of services provided by three MHCs from 2011 to 2013 in Mu...

Expanding access to mental health care: a missing ingredient.

Expanding global access to phantom pain care

Patient perspectives of telemedicine quality

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to explore the quality attributes required for effective telemedicine encounters from the perspective of the patient. METHODS We used a multi-method (direct observation, focus groups, survey) field study to collect data from patients who had experienced telemedicine encounters. Multi-perspectives (researcher and provider) were used to interpret a rich ...