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Telemedicine Today: September 2016

American Well

Telemedicine Today: September 2016. Welcome to the (delayed) September 2016 edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! School Launches Telemedicine Pilot through Arkansas Children’s Hospital. School Launches Telemedicine Pilot through Arkansas Children’s Hospital. KATV ABC 7. KBTX CBS 3.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. Antoinette posed three questions for all of us to brainstorm, addressing various aspects of health equity. Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality "Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process" is a free quality improvement program designed to help practices improve the cancer diagnostic process. What is the status of the "AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process."

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Why telemedicine is a great option for Medicaid recipients

American Well

In the end, I truly believe that on balance we were helping more than hurting, but I always wondered if there were some way that we could have brought them the same level of care and attention, without the negative side effects of having them bend their lives around a health care system centered on the provider. Patients have a workflow too.

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Why telemedicine is a great option for Medicaid recipients

American Well

In the end, I truly believe that on balance we were helping more than hurting, but I always wondered if there were some way that we could have brought them the same level of care and attention, without the negative side effects of having them bend their lives around a health care system centered on the provider. Patients have a workflow too.

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Asking the wrong questions about telemedicine’s impact

Henry Kotula

Researchers evaluated three years of claims data from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to compare patients treated for an acute upper respiratory infection via telemedicine versus an in-person visit, finding that patients who used telemedicine were almost twice as likely to have a related downstream visit (10.3 percent vs. 5.9

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery.