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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"COVID-19 testing, treatment, vaccination, along with continued access to primary care using telehealth and other digital technologies will continue," he said. "I do not think we can consider a post-COVID environment occurring until late 2021 at best.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

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Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent. Years of telehealth advocacy have been devoted to removing these restrictions.