Telehealth
Telehealth is the provision of medical services at a distance via technology. Telehealth has been around for several decades and includes a wide range of methods (e.g., phone, video conferencing, text messaging, mobile apps). Telehealth is used for clinician/client appointments as well as clinician-to-clinician consultations. Telehealth can help break down challenges like transportation and patient stigma fears over going to an HIV care site.
Learn more at Telehealth.hhs.gov and HRSA Telehealth Programs
Best Practices
- Best Practices CompilationThrough the Practice Transformation Project, the Native American Community Clinic and Midwest AIDS Education and Training Center developed strategies to increase testing and linkage to care within the American Indian/Alaska Native population, and for those who inject drugs and are experiencing homelessness. These ongoing efforts have increased HIV testing rates by 10 percentage points through harm reduction, community outreach, and culturally sensitive strategies.
- Best Practices CompilationThe University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine (UNMC/NM) Specialty Care Center (SCC) is the largest provider of comprehensive HIV care—including primary and HIV-focused medical services as well as multiple support services—in Nebraska. In March 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the clinic integrated telehealth into its care delivery model to continue serving patients beyond the clinic structure, and developed algorithms that allowed any team member to quickly identify a patient's eligibility for a telehealth visit. The algorithms include the date of the most recent office visit, stability of HIV disease, most recent viral load and CD4 count, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) refill histories as a proxy for medication adherence. Overall, viral suppression rates remained high for all patients regardless of visit type, indicating that telehealth is a successful alternative to in-person visits for providing HIV care.
Documents
- SPNS Improving Care and Treatment Coordination Black Women with HIVInnovative strategies for delivery of bundled interventions for improving health outcomes for Black women with HIV during COVID-19.
Webinars
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Webinars and other special events by HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-in)Recordings of the TAP-in webinars on topics critical to the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative.
Conference Presentations
Meharry Community Wellness Center
Vladimir Berthaud, Michael Caldwell, Livette Johnson, Toni Hall
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Boston Public Health Commission
Katie Keating, Austin Hanna, Fabiola Catulle
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
AIDS Institute
Nova West, Daniel Belanger, Nicole Fera, Courtney Ahmed, Zeenath Rehana
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
MUSC
Marty Player, Nicole Cooper, Darin King, Vanessa Diaz
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Nebraska Medicine
Nada Fadul, Nichole Regan, Laura Krajewski
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment