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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. Healthcare IT News interviewed Booker and Ratwani to learn more about their work and how it can inform leaders following and advancing the future of telehealth.

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

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Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. Providence St.

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

Health Populi

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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FCC awards Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium $3.1M

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. Health center patients have so far liked telehealth services – 93% rating their experience as good or excellent. WHY IT MATTERS.

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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in a statement.

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United Methodist Communities has early successes with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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Solving the Disconnections in Connected Care

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But it doesn’t work with the system used by the patient’s primary care provider, even though the provider is in-network. Inpatient adoption has risen from 54 percent in 2014 to 85 percent in 2019 according to Definitive Healthcare’s 2019 Inpatient Telehealth Study. Detached and Divided. Telemedicine is on the rise.