mHealth Intelligence January 24, 2024
Anuja Vaidya

OSF HealthCare and Illinois State University are launching a telehealth training program for nurses that offers simulations of virtual visits with trained actors.

Telehealth has cemented itself as a vital tool in the effort to expand healthcare access and improve care outcomes. To keep up with the rise in adoption and use, healthcare organizations need trained clinicians who are comfortable with virtual technologies and care processes. A new nurse training program in the Midwest aims to meet this very need.

The need for practical telehealth training is urgent. While telehealth encompassed less than 1 percent of all visits in the last three quarters of 2019, this figure jumped to 31.2 percent in the second quarter of 2020 before declining to...

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