Eric Andrew
Kristof

Store-and-forward telehealth captures images, recordings, or data and sends them securely for a clinician to review later, without both parties being available at the same time. This post explains how asynchronous telehealth works, common uses such as dermatology, eye screening, and e-consults, its advantages and limits, and the nurse’s role in capturing good data.

Semantic interoperability is the ability of systems to exchange data in a way that preserves its meaning, using common models and standard codes so the receiving system understands it as the sender intended. This post explains the levels of interoperability, how terminologies and value sets create shared meaning, where meaning gets lost, and why it matters at the bedside.

Long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) includes the settings that provide ongoing or recovery care outside acute hospitals, such as skilled nursing facilities, home health, inpatient rehabilitation, long-term care hospitals, hospice, assisted living, and PACE. This post explains LTPAC settings, why interoperability has lagged, how the IMPACT Act standardized assessment data, the importance of care transitions, and nursing roles.