Episode S04 E34: Identifying Drivers, Challenges Behind Remote Patient Monitoring Uptake

Healthcare stakeholders have been leaning on remote patient monitoring tools to provide chronic disease management support, care management, and adverse event reduction. The coronavirus pandemic honed remote patient monitoring skills and forced higher uptake, but stakeholders continue to face challenges around accessibility and reimbursement. Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s Anuja Vaidya, senior editor of mHealthIntelligence and special events lead, Hayden Schmidt, associate researcher, and Kyle Murphy, vice president of Editorial, chat about a recent Insights report detailing the opportunities and barriers for remote patient monitoring and what the future holds for these tools.

Episode S04 E33: Improving Medical Research by Tackling Top Three Challenges

Funding, workforce diversity, and health equity challenges impede medical research advancement. Mary Woolley, president of Research!America, expounds upon the impact of these challenges and how the healthcare industry can rectify issues in these areas.

Episode S04 E32: Workforce Management: How Nurse Practitioners Can Bolster the Primary Care Workforce, Care Access

Healthcare is at a primary care crossroads, soon to find itself with 100 million people lacking access. That problem is driven in part by a primary care workforce stretched too thin. Nurse practitioners, the majority of whom are trained in primary care, could help fill in that gap, according to April Kapu, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. States will need to reconsider their scope of practice laws in order to let NPs realize their full practice authority and fill in primary care access gaps.

Episode S04 E31: Workforce Management: The Importance of Workforce Diversity in Healthcare

Diversity is critically important for the healthcare workforce because it helps ensure that the workforce reflects the communities they serve, which leads to better outcomes for patients and families. In this episode, Nancy Maldonado, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, California, shares how a diverse healthcare workforce brings a range of perspectives and experiences that allow for better communication and understanding between providers and patients of different backgrounds.