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Cybersecurity frameworks in APAC don’t support remote care: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Existing cybersecurity frameworks for healthcare across Asia-Pacific are not suited for remote care management. Consulting which looked into the cybersecurity landscape of the region and how policies and other measures apply in the rising remote care segment.

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ATA, businesses ask Congress to expand telehealth options for workers

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The American Telemedicine Association this week sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting that they continue allowing telehealth and remote care services to be treated as an excepted benefit. But that has the potential to change, noted the business groups. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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During pandemic, telehealth visits soar from 10 per week to 300 at group practice

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Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits. It also helps reduce expensive and unnecessary ER and urgent care visits, he added.

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CoachCare Acquires Verustat

Healthcare IT Today

“We have gotten to know the Verustat team over the past year and their approach to remote care aligns well with CoachCare. We are pleased to welcome their clients and staff to CoachCare and to continue growing our best-in-class remote care platform,” said Wes Haydon, Co-Founder and President at CoachCare.

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Bipartisan bills in House, Senate seek to increase telehealth in nursing homes

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Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, and Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire – would allow Medicare to enter into voluntary, value-based arrangements with medical groups to provide acute care to patients in skilled nursing facilities using a combination of telehealth and on-site staff. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Vendor Notebook: new tools and acquisitions from OptumRx, ScionHealth, others

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A suite of new tools for both patients and providers target aspects of pharmacy logistics that have been known to delay or complicate care, such as getting real-time pharmacy benefits information and obtaining prior authorizations. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Raleigh Medical Group is a multispecialty group that serves the Research Triangle area of North Carolina with 115,000 patient visits a year in its internal medicine, gastroenterology, dermatology and rheumatology divisions. Cary Medical Group is one of its two internal medicine practices. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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