UMMC Telehealth Research Program
UMMC Projects
Telehealth and Post-Stroke Gender-Based Care Inequities (Phase I)
This is the first phase of a 2-phase project that focuses on measuring the impact of telehealth in potentially narrowing post-stroke care gender-based disparities. In…
Telehealth Implementation and Evaluation in Rural and Underserved Communities: RPM Implementation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects approximately 34% of people ages 65 and older while having a more significant impact on non-Hispanic black individuals and Hispanic…
Advancing Rural Healthcare: Tele-Nephrology for Dialysis Management
Implementing a Tele Nephrology program at a rural hospital aims to revolutionize patient care by leveraging telecommunication technology to provide remote nephrology consultations. This initiative…
Implementation of AI based Scribe to Improve Provider and Patient Engagement for Telehealth Visits
One of the major barriers to increased utilization of Telehealth visits is the lack of engagement between patients and providers on camera. Our objective is…
Support to Rural Hospitals and Community Providers
Rural Hospitals are facing increasing difficulties in recruiting specialists to provide care to the patients. As a result many patients are either transferred out to…
Improving Clinical Outcomes by Addressing Digital Inequities
In this project we will partner with Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center (PBTRC) and Wai’anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC). This project is motivated by…
Enhancing Inmate Healthcare via Telehealth
According to a report by the PW Charitable trusts, delivering adequate medical care to the more than 1 million adults in state prisons is a…
Improving Multimodal Communication Treatment for People with Aphasia
Multimodal Communication Treatment (MCT, Purdy & Wallace, 2015) is an effective treatment to train people with a neurogenic communication disorder (aphasia) to use various communication…