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FCC awards Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium $3.1M

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

million grant stems from the FCC's Connect Care Pilot Program , which is designed to help eligible provider organizations defray the costs of offering virtual care and study how the FCC's Universal Service Fund can help support the trend toward connected-care services. Recently, for example, Dr. Patrice A.

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Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Center for Connected Care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is focused on the resourcing and diffusion of digital health solutions in partnership with the Mayo Clinic practice, extending Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise and increasing patient access to clinical care, even at a distance.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

For example, Boomers would be less likely than younger patients to take a telehealth appointment if it was available sooner than an in-person visit — signaling, JLL says, that older people may have stronger ties to medical providers than younger patients. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The first bill of note is the 2023 update to the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act, which, among other telehealth expansions, will permanently remove the in-person requirement for behavioral health clients and patients receiving Medicare.*

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The first bill of note is the 2023 update to the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act, which, among other telehealth expansions, will permanently remove the in-person requirement for behavioral health clients and patients receiving Medicare.*

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Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

That’s a big promise and vision, so to kick the tires on such a Holy Grail I had the opportunity to meet, virtually, with two key leaders of Philips’ health care business: Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader Connected Care, and Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Leader, Post Acute & Home.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Fisne offers a personal example. "So what we're doing now is looking to broaden telehealth even more, to, for example, get into the behavioral health area and make sure we can adopt that. Like Fisne at Geisinger, Hilburn of Grady Health System has had his hands full with telemedicine during the past year or so.