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Beyond telehealth: the virtual care technology trends that will transform healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The good news for telehealth is that the reimbursement environment has improved, with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services bringing telehealth and eVisits on par with in-person visits for the duration of the pandemic, along with a relaxing of rules for virtual consults across state lines. The future of telehealth seems assured.

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Geisinger's digital strategy to combat COVID-19 and accelerate enterprise transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At Geisinger, the crisis has been a catalyst to accelerate digital transformation. As with the rest of the world, the COVID-19 crisis came to Geisinger in a severely disruptive fashion. The silver lining. If there is a silver lining, it may be this: We’ve created a culture that embraces digital health technology.

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Did you miss one? Five Tech and Aging Blog Posts from January 2022

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Many big companies decided at the last minute to stay home, eliminating, as one attendee noted, the lines at Starbucks. All text is from public media. AARP Public Policy research in 2013 revealed a future crisis in availability of people to care for an aging population (“You take care of Mom, but who will take care of you?”).

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