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'Telehealth titans' discuss cost-savings of virtual care, describe the hospital of the future

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In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

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Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. Critics noted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service still has a strict definition for “rural,” and it limits what telehealth services can be provided to rural sites.