Telehealthcare Research from AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program
HealthIT Answers September 3, 2024
Kevin Chaney, M.G.S., Senior Advisor for Dissemination and Innovation in AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Division
Sanjeev Arora, M.D., F.A.C.G., a former AHRQ grantee, distinguished and regents professor of medicine and founder and director of Project ECHO
AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program, which this year commemorates its 20th anniversary, has consistently encouraged the adoption of technologies to enhance not only healthcare quality and safety, but access too. Today we’d like to tell you about AHRQ’s instrumental role in building the foundation for telehealthcare.
Telehealthcare, the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to provide healthcare at a distance, has become an integral component of U.S. healthcare. It is critical to delivering care...