GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

From medical emergencies to ordinary exams, telemedicine is shattering healthcare barriers all over the world. In addition to reducing costs and improving outcomes, virtual health can bring advanced care to underserved patients while relieving overworked providers. Here are 8 steps to starting – and succeeding – with telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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care innovations

APRIL 25, 2018

million in telehealth claims per year “did not meet Medicare requirements,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has thrust new light upon America’s byzantine telemedicine reimbursement policies and the limitations they place on the expansion of value-based care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS. Despite bipartisan support such legislation has failed to gather significant momentum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

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. Access for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 6, 2022

However, while there is an initial upfront cost to implement telehealth and telemedicine technology, it tells only one chapter of the full financial story. Connected, integrated medical devices allow remote healthcare providers to treat patients as if they were there next to them in their facilities. View our Solutions.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

Also, all telehealth services must meet the Medicare established set of criteria for reimbursement. Medicare defines a distant site as, “the site where the physician or practitioner, providing the professional service, is located at the time the service is provided via a telecommunications system.”. Do you need technical assistance?

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

In the end, I truly believe that on balance we were helping more than hurting, but I always wondered if there were some way that we could have brought them the same level of care and attention, without the negative side effects of having them bend their lives around a health care system centered on the provider. Patients have a workflow too.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

In the end, I truly believe that on balance we were helping more than hurting, but I always wondered if there were some way that we could have brought them the same level of care and attention, without the negative side effects of having them bend their lives around a health care system centered on the provider. Patients have a workflow too.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For those of you focused on serving Medicare or older patients, there are some important findings in the JLL study to add into your scenario planning assumptions. Those often lead to follow-up care, so we may not be seeing any difference between in-person and telehealth for follow up to specialists, etc.,” ” she added.

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Mend

JANUARY 4, 2021

Federal officials have clarified new telehealth reimbursement rules for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs), giving those sites more opportunities to use connected health services during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 22, 2020

Telemedicine reimbursement is always changing. Specific statutes can shape telemedicine growth as well, such as encouraging specialty consults but not remote patient monitoring – depending on which service is best compensated. Generous policies can drive telehealth offerings, just as restrictions can create a financial disincentive.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

But today’s telemedicine tools can enable evidence-based care and data sharing. Other providers worry that adding technology to a patient visit will be too complicated or time-consuming – but modern solutions are so easy to navigate that both clinicians and patients can immediately connect with each other to focus on the treatment.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

House of Representatives, allows for an expansion of telehealth/telemedicine coverage under the Medicare Advantage Plan B. Medicare Advantage Plan B is an optional insurance that covers medically necessary and preventative healthcare services, supplies, and select prescription medications for individuals 65 and older.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

What will telemedicine look like in 2030? imagined Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director and Health of Global Healthcare Practice. Telemedicine used to be about solving access to no care,” Kaveh introduced the conversation. Now, it’s about serving people who already have care through different mechanisms.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Kara Odom Walker, chief population health officer at Nemours Children's Health System. "The LINC to Address Social Needs Act would make such an investment in technology infrastructure to connect health care and community social service organizations, addressing the growing need for whole-child and whole-family care."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past six months, as hospitals and health systems have pursued telemedicine and remote patient monitoring programs in earnest – whether launching new one or expanding existing ones – they've all had some learning curves and growing pains to manage. How to cultivate clinician buy-in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | June 16, 2023 News Community Health Network finds big ROI in consumer-centric technology Since implementing discovery, navigation and merchandising tools, the health system achieved a 300.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

On March 15 at 1 PM CT , Mei Wa Kwong, JD, Executive Director, and Christine Calouro, Policy Associate, from the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) will present a free National Telehealth Resource Center webinar to provide an update on federal and state telehealth policy actions and to discuss issues that may arise throughout the year.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

As Deloitte’s annual report on the connected consumer has morphed from the “mobile” consumer to the “connected” person, it’s underpinned by omnichannel-everything.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

While the global telemedicine market was estimated at $68.3 billion in 2021, it is now projected by GRG Health to rise to $324.38 An example is the recent Park Associate’s annual Connected Health Summit, a virtual conference featuring innovation in consumer behavior, IoT technologies, and operations.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Millions of Americans turned to live audio and video visits with healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Congress needs to make decisions that will permanently affect how Americans, in particular Medicare patients, may access these telehealth services on a permanent basis. Postal Service—to detect these schemes and stop them.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

For health care, the data portrayed in the next chart will be concerning: the Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds are expected to hit “zero” (the X-access) by 2025 and just after 2030, respectively. The Medicare Trust Fund is financed by payroll taxes, general tax revenue, and the premiums enrollees pay.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The exuberance among Black older people to use telehealth in the future is undeniable, and a useful statistic to keep in mind when planning for the future of Medicare coupled with breaking down access barriers to care and promoting greater health equity.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Allows telemedicine providers to provide substance use disorder treatment. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation. Mississippi.

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