McKnight's June 17, 2021
Technology-based learning collaboratives are an underutilized resource within long-term care and may be a great tool to help the field develop a pandemic preparation plan for the future. That’s according to experts at a session on tech innovations in crisis management during the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies 2021 Collaborative Care & Health IT Innovations Summit, which took place online recently.
Panelist David Wong, M.D., chief medical officer in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health, discussed his involvement with the agency’s “Telemedicine Hack,” a 10-week virtual peer-to-peer learning collaborative that took place last summer. It was designed to accelerate telemedicine implementation for providers around the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach...