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No registry for telemedicine providers is a missed opportunity, says ATA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Drug Enforcement Administration's proposed permanent changes to the e-prescribing of controlled medications, the American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action sent its final comments this week in two letters. Following up on its February 27 statement opposing the U.S.

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What an eventual end to the PHE would mean for telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Since the COVID-19 public health emergency was declared in 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services has renewed the legislation every 90 days. She says that a reversal would limit digital health access, which an overly burdened and understaffed industry has come to rely on. What's at stake.

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DEA Proposes New Rules for Telehealth Prescriptions

Telebehavioral Health Institute

They explained their focus on expanding patient access to critical therapies beyond the May 11 end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Developed with the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the proposed rules propose to extend many of the flexibilities adopted during COVID.

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Telehealth Controlled Substances: Evidence Mounts Against DEA Restrictions

Telebehavioral Health Institute

With the COVID public health emergency (PHE) scheduled to end on May 11, 2023, the issue of prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine and telehealth has taken center stage. It is important to note the presence of other drugs in overdose deaths involving buprenorphine. JAMA Psychiatry. 2022;79(9):932-934.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”