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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Health and Human Services, said Bordenick, have allowed individuals suffering from COVID symptoms to get virtual treatment. But the waivers have fulfilled another important function: "It's allowed individuals to manage their non-COVID treatment," such as cancer treatment, mental health care and diabetes management.

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Ed Grogan, VP & CIO, Calvert Health System, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

We took him over to the ICU to take a look at the telemedicine setup since we were the first in Maryland to do that, and he turned to his secretary of health who was with him and said, ‘Why isn’t the University of Maryland doing this?’. Back in 2010, we established a community health information exchange.

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