Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But even if providers do not serve Medicare populations, "Medicare policy trickles down," added Herber. Under the CARES Act, Congress granted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services authority to waive certain restrictions for Medicare coverage of telehealth. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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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 shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The pandemic has significantly boosted in-home hospital care, just as it did telemedicine. Wellframe is strongly committed to validating its platform, so it uses a different path to causal inference.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

"We are at an inflection point, and inflections bring new challenges," said former senate majority leader Dr. William Frist, R-Tennessee, during the first day of the American Telemedicine Association's four-part EDGE policy conference on Tuesday. "How is [audio-only care] covered? Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. are not ready to participate in video visits. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with this digital health investor to talk about digital health investment trends during the pandemic and where he sees funding trending in 2022 and beyond. Telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and digital front door technologies that once were fringe, became mainstream. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

Healthcare IT News wanted to dig deep into the new law and its promises, so we sat down with Kamala Green, social drivers of health program manager at National Government Services. National Government Services empowers federal healthcare agencies to deliver care to millions of Americans through outcomes-driven innovation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In a hearing this week, members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions asked how many of those changes should be made permanent – and how to make sure the most vulnerable won't get left behind. however, spoke out against parity in pay for telemedicine services. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2024

A Congressional bill would promote behavioral therapy for obesity and extend Medicare coverage for drugs treating obesity. Other advocates want weight handled as a lifestyle issue that each person themselves should choose how to handle. Researchers have found ties between high body weight and an oversized list of unhealthy conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite innovations, a new study from the Yale School of Public Health finds the nation is losing ground on access to healthcare, with more barriers now than 20 years ago. Q: The role of telemedicine is shifting. Unite Us is a technology company that builds coordinated care networks of health and social service providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Raj Ratwani, PhD, vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Oftentimes when people think about telemedicine, they envision a patient in a clinic with a technological setup they address, with physicians on the other end at another clinic far away doing the same. It's not true telemedicine." So why wasn't the healthcare organization doing this in the past?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission. Why has telemedicine become a priority for the organization?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2020

We wrote previously about HIPAA enforcement being suspended for telehealth during COVID-19 and more details on how to implement it. Plus, we shared the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth. However, there were still many questions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. As telehealth in general, including telepsychiatry, has become more commonly used, there has been pressure on Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance companies to develop standards for coding and billing for telehealth services. Taking vitals is not necessary.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

Those who spoke with Healthcare IT News for this story made it clear that the benefits of telehealth outweigh the challenges. "One of the things [to think about] for us is what the future holds about Medicare and Medicaid – and private insurance – and what they're going to cover." " she said.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

and how we got where we are. It also makes some recommendations on how to think about telehealth in the […]. Today I read an interesting piece by Sean Cavanaugh, chief policy officer of ACO sponsor Aledade Inc. The piece, which appears in the Health Affairs blog, looks at the state of telehealth in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2023

Literacy – How well we read and write. Social communication – How well we follow rules, like taking turns, how to talk to different people, or how close to stand to someone when talking. Voice – How our voices sound. And how is it different from in-person care? Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 18, 2023

This Clear Arch Health podcast episode features American Telemedicine Association (ATA) leadership (Ann Mond Johnson, CEO and Kyle Zebley, Sr. Introduction: Welcome to Transforming Healthcare with Clear Arch Health , an ongoing conversation about developments shaping digital healthcare. Listen and read the full text here!

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 18, 2023

This Clear Arch Health podcast episode features American Telemedicine Association (ATA) leadership (Ann Mond Johnson, CEO and Kyle Zebley, Sr. Introduction: Welcome to Transforming Healthcare with Clear Arch Health, an ongoing conversation about developments shaping digital healthcare. Listen and read the full text here!

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Expansion of the use of robots in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring will enable health care providers to reach patients in underserved areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

Like so much else in healthcare, that's set to change in the years ahead – is already changing – thanks to the twin revolutions of technology and consumerism. What are some of the biggest changes you see in the next year, two years, five years for the healthcare workforce? It's not just naturally intuitive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The insights also can help healthcare organizations navigate vaccine distribution, as well as the ebbs and flows of patient volumes due to COVID-19 in the year ahead, according to the new report. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. ” The FDA is hinting that some of these changes could be here to stay.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. But in our work treating patients with opioid use disorder, we’ve seen first-hand that telemedicine can help people find long-term recovery.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2015

From difficulties implanting new HER systems to the re-evaluation of Medicare reimbursements, rural hospitals are looking for new ways to stay afloat. We’ve selected 4 trends that we’ve seen buzzing in the rural healthcare sector this year and that have been helping rural hospitals make the changes they need to succeed.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. and Canada.”

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. Stoltenberg Consulting has worked with more than 250 healthcare organizations to deliver high-value healthcare IT solutions. All employees have access to free affinity and support groups as well as fitness facilities.

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