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How the hybrid future of telemedicine may play out

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care.

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Tilak Healthcare Raises €10 Million to Continue Growing Its Leading Ophthalmological Telemedicine Offering

Digital Health Global

The investment by Théa, Europe’s leading independent ophthalmology laboratory, emphasises OdySight’s value and importance for visual health applications. For many of those impacted, such visual ailments will have either not been addressed by medical care or could have been avoided. According to the World Health Organization, 3.4

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2020 Roadmap: Overcoming Telemedicine Barriers

GlobalMed

If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.

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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. It's clear the future of reimbursement will at minimum include a heaping portion of providers being paid for value as opposed to volume. What do you think will happen with telemedicine in 2022?

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. " Finally, prior to CMS loosening telemedicine policy for the pandemic, reimbursement was a concern. THE PROBLEM. Decisions were not made yet on the level of payment.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). Some of the most important areas of the Center’s impact include initiatives addressing low-value care, waste in U.S. The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!!

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JAMA Article Shows Telehealth Slowed Opioid Overdoses During Pandemic

Continue Education Journal

WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About ATA Action.