Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

At the same time, say industry leaders, vulnerable groups – especially people of color – are being left behind. "Regrettably, minority groups are being left behind by the telehealth revolution," said David Smith, executive director for the Medicaid Transformation Project, in an interview with Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. This grant comes as we near the conclusion this month of our first two-year, $1 million award studying how telehealth transformation impacted primary care access.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Robert Pearl, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, speaks at Health Affairs briefing on Feb. Connected care” is gaining more momentum in the health care industry. Health care providers are adopting electronic health records with federal support and standard setting. Photo courtesy Health Affairs).

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

We know that rural and underserved communities can benefit from strong virtual care programs, but those same communities may have digital connectivity barriers and social determinants of health (SDOH) that stop patients from accessing telemedicine. Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. How to optimize RPM for physicians. How CIOs can help shape strategy.

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American Well

JULY 30, 2017

The CONNECT for Health Act would improve coverage of telehealth and remote patient monitoring as basic benefits in Medicare Advantage. Telehealth has the potential to help rural patients remotely access specialized healthcare — but convincing payers like Medicare to cover these services has proved challenging.

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American Well

JULY 30, 2017

The CONNECT for Health Act would improve coverage of telehealth and remote patient monitoring as basic benefits in Medicare Advantage. Telehealth has the potential to help rural patients remotely access specialized healthcare — but convincing payers like Medicare to cover these services has proved challenging.

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SteadyMD

MARCH 17, 2022

As hospitals and doctors’ offices continue to be overburdened by staff shortages and patient overload, telehealth offerings keep pace in providing a wide-range of patient care access, overcoming racial inequality, transportation barriers from rural communities, and treating chronic medical conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Reducing the cost of care requires aligning incentives of providers, payers and patients. Information blocking rules: Health industry groups call for Congressional oversight. Collection.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Telemedicine is a hot topic in healthcare, with consumers more willing than ever to see a doctor remotely. The Alliance for Connected Care concludes that a telehealth visit for acute care represents $126 in savings over an in-person visit. The Lay of the Land. Patient Setting.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Telemedicine is a hot topic in healthcare, with consumers more willing than ever to see a doctor remotely. The Alliance for Connected Care concludes that a telehealth visit for acute care represents $126 in savings over an in-person visit. The Lay of the Land. Patient Setting.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

"Congress must act to provide more certainty to beneficiaries and healthcare providers alike, while ensuring sufficient time is taken to analyze the impact of telehealth on patient care throughout the pandemic to inform permanent telehealth reform,” said Krista Drobac, executive director of Alliance for Connected Care, in a statement.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the recent past, such initiatives have included: The expansion of reimbursement for remote care services by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). One such area is to help providers understand how telemedicine can be used, in certain circumstances, to expand access to buprenorphine-based MAT.”. Giroir, MD.

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