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The International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) exists to facilitate the international dissemination of knowledge and experience in digital health, to provide access to recognised experts in the field worldwide, and to offer unprecedented networking opportunities to the international digital health community.
The International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth is the international federation of national associations who represent their country’s telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders, together with other associations, institutions, companies and individuals with an activity or keen interest in digital health.
The ISfTeH fosters the sharing of knowledge and experiences across organizations and across borders and aims to promote the widespread use of ICT tools and solutions in health and social care in order to improve access to healthcare services, improve quality of care, integrate care pathways, share and exchange information with citizens/patients and reduce costs.
The ISfTeH is also recognized as “Non-State Actor in Official Relations with the World Health Organization”, making it the international reference in telemedicine and eHealth for health policy makers from around the world. Through its national member associations and through courses, conferences and other initiatives, the ISfTeH does participate in the establishment of digital health training and implementation, and provides assistance and education where needed.
Join our network of member organizations from over 100 countries around the world. The ISfTeH is your door to the global telemedicine and eHealth community. Through its various activities and members, the ISfTeH can assist you in the promotion and dissemination of your research; help you to enhance your healthcare services with new tools and technologies; provide ideas to broaden your educational programs and courses; and widen your international business network.
World Telehealth Initiative (WTI) is a non-profit organization that leverages telehealth technology to expand healthcare access for vulnerable communities around the world. WTI virtually connects our philanthropic medical specialists with clinics and hospitals in underserved areas to provide world-class expertise, train local clinicians and care for patients who need specialized care. By upskilling the local clinicians and building the capacity of their health systems, WTI embeds quality healthcare into the fabric of these communities for future generations. WTI is transforming global healthcare and bringing life-changing care to people in need around the world.
The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), a 501(c)(3) organization, is a patient advocacy organization dedicated to individuals with rare diseases and the organizations that serve them. NORD, along with its more than 300 patient organization members, is committed to the identification, treatment, and cure of rare disorders through programs of education, advocacy, research, and patient services.
The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) equips its more than 90,000 members to navigate a complex healthcare landscape. Finance professionals in the full range of work settings, including hospitals, health systems, physician practices and health plans, trust HFMA to provide the guidance and tools to help them lead their organizations, and the industry, forward. HFMA is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization that advances healthcare by collaborating with other key stakeholders to address industry challenges and providing guidance, education, practical tools and solutions, and thought leadership. We lead the financial management of healthcare.
The Telehealth Equality Coalition (TEC) was founded in February 2021 with the goal to bring together diverse voices and stakeholders from across the country to work towards equitable telehealth adoption. TEC members represent the health, technology, equity, government, and community engagement sectors, and the Coalition is driven to improve access to quality and affordable healthcare by advancing telehealth adoption among underserved populations. As a coalition, TEC has developed policy principles, and advocated for proposals, programs and technologies that support impactful and equitable telehealth adoption.
Vot-ER connects healthcare institutions and providers with the tools, training, and community to register colleagues and patients to vote, bringing providers and patients together to promote civic engagement and create healthier communities across the United States.
Telehealth Access for America (TAFA) is a public education campaign supported by leaders in health care committed to better care, expanded patient choice, and protecting access to critical telehealth services.
The South Carolina Telehealth Alliance (SCTA) is a statewide collaboration of 25+ organizations joining forces to expand telehealth services across the state. The SCTA is guided by an advisory council of telehealth leaders from across the state, and partners remain aligned through the statewide telehealth strategic plan.
The Southeastern Telehealth Resource Center (SETRC) is one of 14 Telehealth Resource Centers ( 12 Regional and 2 National) funded by the federal Office for the Advancement of Telehealth through a grant program to provide support and guidance to telehealth programs. Our mission is to serve as a focal point for advancing the effective use of telehealth and support access to telehealth services in rural and underserved communities in the southeastern region of the United States, which include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. We have extensive telehealth experience and can provide services, resources and tools to both developing and operating programs.
The Scottsdale Institute (SI) is a not-for-profit membership organization of more than 60 prominent, advanced, not-for-profit health systems and academic medical centers whose mission is to improve healthcare quality, efficiency and personal experience through IT-enabled transformation. Our North Star is thought leadership guided by SI’s Three Pillars of Collaboration, Education and Networking. We convene intimate, informal and collegial forums for senior healthcare executives, including but not limited to CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, CMIOs and CNIOs, to share knowledge, best practices and lessons learned. Our goal: Gather the right people to discuss the right topics at the right moment.
The Northeast Telehealth Resource Center (NETRC) has a mission to increase access to quality health care services for rural and medically underserved populations through Telehealth. We provide FREE, individualized technical assistance, education, and other resources in collaboration with the Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers, MCD Public Health, and the University of Vermont. Our service area includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, but we gladly accept calls no matter where you are located.
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is a national nonprofit membership organization with more than 21,000 members. The association’s mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues through advocacy, communications, education and research. NRHA membership consists of a diverse collection of individuals and organizations, all of whom share the common bond of an interest in rural health.
The National Minority Health Association, founded in 1988 by Dr. David L. Dalton, Chairman, and CEO, UNIVEC Conglomerate, Inc. (UNVC), achieved its initial mission of ensuring the establishment of Offices of Minority Health in all 50 states. Today the NMHA is adding to its mission and deploying new programs that utilize patient-centered, value-based care and new ways of enhancing care to patients where they are, lowering costs, and improving outcomes for minority and underserved communities.
Easterseals is leading the way to full equity, inclusion, and access through life-changing disability and community services. For more than 100 years, we have worked tirelessly with our partners to enhance quality of life and expand local access to healthcare, education, and employment opportunities. And we won’t rest until every one of us is valued, respected, and accepted. Through our national network of Affiliates, Easterseals provides essential services and on-the-ground supports to more than 1.5 million people each year – from early childhood programs for the critical first five years, to autism services, medical rehabilitation and employment programs, veterans’ services, and more. Our public education, policy, and advocacy initiatives positively shape perceptions and address the urgent and evolving needs of the one in four Americans living with disabilities today. Together, we’re empowering people with disabilities, families, and communities to be full and equal participants in society.
Established in 1985, The ALS Association is the only national nonprofit organization fighting ALS on every front. Our mission is to discover treatments and a cure for ALS, and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by ALS to live their lives to the fullest.
We are digital health experts on the mission to make health uncomplicated by transcending the barriers to human health.
In 2017, Utah Telehealth Network (UTN) was selected by the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services to host the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC). The NRTRC is part of the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers. The NRTRC collaborates with 11 regional resource centers and two national resource centers to share information and resources.
The REDC is the national consortium representing eating disorders care focused on standards, policy, research, and best practices. The mission of REDC is to collaboratively address issues impacting access to and quality of eating disorder treatment programs across the US for individuals and their families. REDC works to continually refine and improve standards of care, partner in collaborative research, and actively support policy that ensures quality, accessible care for people with eating disorders.
Inside TeleHealth is a new service from Inside Health Policy, focused directly on the policy debate shaping the future of the digital health revolution. Inside TeleHealth follows in the tradition of Inside CMS, FDA Week, Health Exchange Alert and Inside Drug Pricing, providing exclusive, detailed, reliable policy news for anyone with a professional need-to-know about the fast-evolving telehealth landscape. Sign up for your no-obligation, one-month free trial to Inside Health Policy (it will automatically expire at the end of 30 days). Please go to: www.insidehealthpolicy.com and then select ‘Inside Telehealth‘ as part of your trial to Inside Health Policy.
Slice of Healthcare is a leading healthcare media company focused on creating bite-sized healthcare content, most of which is driven by podcasts. The company prides itself on being the place for healthcare organizations to tell their founding, fundraising, partnership and other stories. Slice of Healthcare produces and manages multiple podcast shows that have consistently ranked in the top 10 healthcare business news podcasts. Across its network of shows, the company releases over 400 episodes per year and has had many notable healthcare leaders and founders as guests.
The Wyoming Telehealth Network exists to support healthcare entities and providers with professional development, collaboration, and access to telecommunications technology, and to improve health outcomes for Wyoming residents with increased access to care through telecommunications technology.
For nearly 30 years, WEDI has been an instrumental force in igniting public-private partnerships to empower meaningful changes for the American health care system. Recognized and trusted as a formal advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), WEDI is the leading authority on the use of health IT to efficiently improve health information exchange, enhance care quality, and reduce costs. With a focus on advancing standards for electronic administrative transactions, promoting data privacy and security, WEDI has been instrumental in aligning the industry in an effort to harmonize administrative and clinical data
After discovering a great need for a professional development group for women in the healthcare industry, “Women in Healthcare” was born. The purpose of our organization is to promote the professional development of females in the healthcare industry, to empower one another, support growth and mentorship, and support business through sharing successful techniques, leads, contacts, products and services. We provide content that furthers the individuals’ knowledge of industry related fields and trends, enhances professional development tools and gives a forum for personal growth.
In 1980, Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became the Susan G. Komen organization and the beginning of a global movement. What was started with $200 and a shoebox full of potential donor names has now grown into the world’s largest nonprofit source of funding for the fight against breast cancer. To date, we’ve invested more than $2.9 billion in groundbreaking research, community health outreach, advocacy and programs in more than 60 countries. Our efforts helped reduce deaths from breast cancer by 40 percent between 1989-2016 and we won’t stop until our promise is fulfilled.
The Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTHA) provides a statewide forum for the purposes of developing telehealth related policies and programs designed to improve healthcare for Mississippians. MTHA membership consists of telehealth service providers, technology vendors, telecommunications providers, hospitals, patient advocacy and wellness organizations, and other relevant groups. We are committed to increasing access and overall quality of healthcare in the state of Mississippi.
Established in 1975 as the Association of Sleep Disorders Centers, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is the only professional society dedicated exclusively to the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine.
As the leading voice in the sleep field, the AASM sets standards and promotes excellence in sleep medicine health care, education, and research. The AASM has a combined membership of 11,000 accredited member sleep centers and individual members, including physicians, scientists, and other health care professionals.
NAMSS is committed to enhancing the professional development of and recognition for professionals in the medical staff and credentialing services field. The medical services profession has evolved over the past 41 years to where we are today – a true profession that spans a wide range of employment settings and requires a specific knowledge base and professional competencies. The NAMSS membership includes more than 6,000 medical staff and credentialing services professionals from medical group practices, hospitals, managed care organizations, and CVOs.
Through our education, advocacy, and commitment to patient safety, NAMSS continues to support MSPs, our members, and the healthcare industry
Patient in Focus is an international, disease neutral, nonprofit patient organization based in Europe. Built by patients for patients. Patient in Focus provides the opportunity to make a difference for yourself and others by being a voice with healthcare professionals, researchers, industry, academics etc. We do this through patient engagement, counseling, and a strong patient community, where we can create life-changing purpose and quality of life despite chronic illness, pain, and disabled.
Crossover Health is the leader in delivering value-based hybrid care. The company’s national medical group delivers – at scale – Primary Health, a proven care model driven by an interdisciplinary team inclusive of primary care, physical medicine, mental health, health coaching and care navigation. With a focus on wellbeing and prevention that extends beyond traditional sick care, Crossover’s care model is rooted in trusted relationships with its members to flexibly surround them with care – via in-person or virtual care – based on member preference. Combining a sophisticated approach to data analytics that incorporate social determinants of health, Crossover delivers concrete results and measurable value for employers, payers and most importantly, members. Together we are building health as it should be and engaging a community of members to live their best health. To learn more, visit crossoverhealth.com or follow us on social media @crossoverhealth.
The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization with member organizations from diverse sectors of U.S. health care, including, among others, patient advocates, payers, providers, biopharma, pharmacy, and academia. NEHI’s mission is to solve complex problems and achieve better value in health care by fostering innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration among diverse stakeholders.
The National Psoriasis Foundation is the leading nonprofit funder of psoriatic disease and comorbidities research. NPF supports, educates, and advocates for the 8 million people in the U.S. who experience psoriasis and the health care providers who treat them. The mission of NPF is to drive efforts to cure psoriatic disease and improve the lives of those affected.
The National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) is dedicated to finding cures for inheritable blood disorders and to addressing and preventing the complications of these disorders through research, education, and advocacy enabling people and families to thrive.
The National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL) is an advocacy organization representing suppliers of ancillary services and providers to the long term and post-acute care (LTPAC) sector. NASL is a founding member of the Long Term and Post-Acute Care Health Information Technology Collaborative (LTPAC Health IT Collaborative), which was formed in 2005 to advance health IT issues by encouraging coordination among provider organizations, policymakers, vendors, payers and other stakeholders to increase interoperability.
The Nashville Health Care Council is a premier association of health care industry leaders working together to inspire global collaboration to improve health care by serving as a catalyst for leadership and innovation.
For 70 years, the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has been committed to transforming the lives of people living with muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related neuromuscular diseases. We do this through innovations in science and innovations in care.
The Mended Hearts, Inc. inspires hope and improves the quality of life for heart patients and their families through ongoing peer-to-peer support, education, and advocacy. Mended Hearts® provides our services across the lifespan and free of charge to patients and their caregivers.
For more than a quarter of a century, MassMEDIC has been the voice of the groundbreaking medical technology industry in New England, advocating for sound public policy that supports innovation, and fostering a community built on a shared purpose: Saving and improving the lives of patients everywhere through medical technology.
The Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) is the nation’s largest lymphoma-focused health organization devoted to improving care through education and support services and improving outcomes through investment in the most promising lymphoma research. Our mission is to eradicate lymphoma and serve all those impacted by this blood cancer.
The Haystack Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together patients organizations representing patients suffering from or caring for patients with extremely rare diseases. Our mission is to educate policymakers and other stakeholders about the need for policies that recognize the unique circumstances of extremely rare conditions and treatments and expand incentives critical to ensuring they can reach patients.
Essential Access Health champions and promotes quality sexual and reproductive health care for all. Recent transformations in our health care delivery system have expanded opportunities to increase remote access to these essential services. Telehealth Essentials is an online resource hub designed to support the delivery of sexual and reproductive health care through a broad range of telehealth modalities.
The EMAA (Expanding Medication Abortion Access) Project seeks to improve the way the medications prescribed for medication abortion care are dispensed in the United States, to make the process consistent with the medical and scientific evidence and to meet women’s needs.
ECHAlliance is the Global Connector for digital health. Our global community connects 78 countries and 4.4 billion people (Africa, Americas, Asia, Canada, Caribbean, China, Europe, Commonwealth, India, the Pacific & USA) and over 20,000 experts – including governments, health & social care providers, leading companies and start-ups, researchers, insurances, patients groups and citizens. We have an intelligence network of over 70+ Ecosystems, run a number of international projects, provide up to date news and social media content and organise key digital health events. We launched the Global Health Connector Partnership to continue working on the mission of connecting global health communities pursuing solutions to shared problems and discovering common areas of work.
The Digital Health Observatory and The Digital Health Society movements facilitate and promote the transfer of knowledge, experiences and best practices creating a community of knowledge in Digital Health globally.
CEO Action for Racial Equity is focused on improving the lives of the 47+ million Black Americans through advocacy and advancement of public policies that will root out and end systemic racism. Using CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion as a platform, our Fellowship is the first business-led coalition of its kind with a mission to advance racial equity through public policy.
As the largest professionally led nonprofit network of cancer support worldwide, the Cancer Support Community is dedicated to ensuring that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide. AFSP creates a culture that’s smart about mental health through education and community programs, develops suicide prevention through research and advocacy, and provides support for those affected by suicide.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides trusted and integrated capabilities that makes it easier for organizations to create personalized patient experiences, gives health teams connected collaboration tools, and adopts data standards important to healthcare. Customers can access the broadest and deepest set of trusted solutions to address the biggest challenges in healthcare.
MedWand Solutions, Inc. delivers digital healthcare technologies that enhance the accessibility and quality of healthcare services for clinicians and patients, regardless of location. Transforming the traditional understanding of telemedicine, MedWand combines multiple clinically accurate vitals sensors with a multi-purpose Ultra-HD resolution camera into one, handheld, lightweight device. Data collected can include core temperature, blood oxygen saturation, and pulse rate, heart, lung and abdominal auscultations, electrocardiogram*, and high definition otoscopic, oropharynx, and dermatoscopic exam images. Through approved 3rd party Bluetooth peripherals, the MedWand Mobile and Remote Clinics can also seamlessly capture blood pressure, glucometer, spirometry, and weight data.
MedWand is an FDA approved device created by a team of physicians and engineers to enhance the quality and accessibility of health care services regardless of physical location. The company offers advanced telemedicine solutions for multiple applications that include hospitals, remote clinics, nursing homes, schools, and workplaces.
CDW Healthcare offers you the latest IT solutions and services you need to give your patients the best care across the continuum – from the digital front door to the hospital at home. For more than 30 years, CDW Healthcare has been a trusted partner to more than 15,000 healthcare organizations, including:
We get that you need more than technology – you need a partner who can guide you in developing forward-thinking strategies that address clinician, staff and patient expectations. CDW Healthcare’s resources – including account teams, solution architects and dedicated Healthcare Strategists – bring you in-depth industry expertise, understand your unique environment and apply real-world solutions to your toughest IT challenges. To power the progressive pace of healthcare, you need IT orchestration by CDW Healthcare.
At Definitive Healthcare, our passion is to transform data, analytics, and expertise into healthcare commercial intelligence. We help clients uncover the right markets, opportunities, and people, so they can shape tomorrow’s healthcare industry. Our SaaS platform creates new paths to commercial success in the healthcare market, so companies can identify where to go next.
