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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

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House Committee on Ways and Means passed six pieces of legislation that would bolster telehealth in the U.S. for the next two years, assuring several aspects of access for health citizens across the country. The six pieces of telehealth policy cover: The Preserving Telehealth. Yesterday, the U.S.

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ATA to assess telemedicine's role in addressing U.S. healthcare disparities

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The American Telemedicine Association announced this week that it was launching a new initiative aimed at evaluating telehealth's potential as a tool to address and eliminate health disparities in the United States. " said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the ATA, in a statement. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition

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As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible. And when people don't have access to quality Internet, she added, "that further hampers their access to quality telehealth care."

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Care coordination and continuity.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

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Applying for telemedicine jobs and want to stand out? Here’s the essential telehealth terminology that will put you ahead of the curve. This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. Just getting started in the field? Sometimes this is referred to as the consulting site.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

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“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

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health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S., Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, the use of telehealth in U.S. Scale matters to survive a public health crisis.