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MedStar Health uses $2M AHRQ research grant to enhance telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The lessons have been learned in real time: how to cultivate clinician buy-in, adjust to new workflows, iron out IT challenges, educate patients, manage new data streams, safeguard security and much more. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity. How to optimize RPM for physicians. How to cultivate clinician buy-in.

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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford

Health Populi

Today, fewer than 1% of Medicare beneficiaries have had any telehealth encounter, Kaveh explained, and fewer than one in eight doctors are aware of offering telehealth in their practice. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. First, connected care: one in five U.S.

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UVA Health System expands telehealth offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For example, UVA researchers will assess existing health and fitness apps to determine which are most helpful as well as determining how to incorporate elements of game playing to help people reach their health and fitness goals. “The digital transformation of healthcare has been affirmed by U.S.

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Mississippi Telehealth Network Could Be FCC’s Model for RPM Expansion

care innovations

Built upon the Care Innovations® Health Harmony remote patient management (RPM) platform , the Mississippi diabetes telehealth network has accumulated an impressive assortment of accolades in the years since. Today, it’s widely regarded as a model of how to leverage telehealth and RPM technology to extend care into remote areas.

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When Social Determinants of Health Limit Virtual Care Access

GlobalMed

Patient access to a connective device such as a smartphone, tablet, or computer. Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

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The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

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The leading remote care delivery organizations will be well prepared for this service addition. Look for an upcoming post here at the Care Innovations blog for details on the new codes and how to use them. About Marcus Grindstaff Chief Operations Officer, Care Innovations. The new CPT codes do exactly that!