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COVID-19 – Coronavirus

Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.

Oct 5, 2020 •Telehealth

Telehealth Is Here To Stay. Are The Providers Who Refuse To Embrace It?

Telehealth provides convenience to patients. It has the potential to improve patient outcomes by ensuring worrisome signs and symptoms are discussed with a clinician as quickly as…

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Oct 5, 2020 •Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Alert: FCC Offers Guidance to Healthcare Providers Seeking Funding for Telehealth Services

The Federal Communications Commission released a public notice to help eligible healthcare providers apply for funding through the FCC’s Connected Care Pilot Program. The $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program…

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Oct 5, 2020 •Telehealth

Taming the wild telehealth frontier

COVID-19 has forever changed the way our healthcare system thinks about and delivers care. It has brought about a paradigm shift, giving rise to digital health technologies…

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Oct 5, 2020 •Telehealth

Ensuring the Future of Tele-Mental Health

There has been a 4000% increase in commercial telehealth claims year-to-year and 1/3 of them are mental health claims. COVID-19 has precipitated a mental health pandemic. Not only can the virus…

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Oct 5, 2020 •Telehealth

Using Telehealth to Make Patient Rounding More Efficient and Effective

In the latest Healthcare Strategies podcast, Sri Bharadwaj of Franciscan Health explains how the Indiana health system uses telehealth to improve patient care and care team collaboration.…

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Oct 5, 2020 •Telehealth

FCC Extends Telehealth Program Purchase Deadline

The FCC has extended the deadline for its telehealth program recipients to use their money to buy eligible devices and services to the end of the year.…

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Oct 2, 2020 •Blog

We’ve failed in chronic care management It’s time to change course.

In rearchitecting the system by training every care provider in every specialty, and enable lower-cost providers and communities, we will provide a new model of care where…

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Oct 1, 2020 •Telehealth

To succeed with telehealth, know your “webside manner”

Telehealth has been in some level of development in many U.S. physician practices for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has thrust it to the forefront of patient…

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Oct 1, 2020 •Telehealth

Using telehealth to manage chronic diseases

COVID-19 provided a much-needed catalyst for widespread integration of telemedicine. Now it’s time to use it against our biggest long-term health challenges. Telemedicine is not a new…

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Oct 1, 2020 •COVID-19 - Coronavirus

COVID-19 forced reluctant mental health providers to try telemedicine. Now there’s no going back.

For years, telemedicine has been touted as a way to address mental health provider shortages in Greater Minnesota or as an option that could help stave off…

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Oct 1, 2020 •Telehealth

Telehealth during COVID-19 pandemic: will the future last?

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) constitutes a major pillar of secondary prevention measures in cardiac patients, in particular for those with coronary artery disease and heart failure, but also…

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Oct 1, 2020 •Physician Fee Schedule

ATA weighs in on proposed CMS Physician Fee Schedule rule

The American Telemedicine Association’s comments focused on expanding telehealth access, changes to remote monitoring services, and the provision of telehealth in federally qualified health centers and rural…

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Sep 29, 2020 •COVID-19 - Coronavirus

How the Healthcare Industry, Worker Roles will Evolve as a Result of COVID-19

September 26, 2020John Danaher The coronavirus pandemic has shed light on major imbalances within the healthcare system, specifically, the supply and demand of allied health professionals, and…

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Sep 29, 2020 •Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Medicare

53 Medicare Advantage Plans to Offer Hospice in 2021, Palliative Care to Grow

Among Medicare Advantage plans, 53 will be covering hospice and palliative care in 2021 through the value-based insurance design (VBID) model, according to the U.S. Centers for…

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Sep 29, 2020 •Telehealth

17 patient care organizations ink principles for telehealth regulations

Jackie Drees – Friday, September 25th, 2020 The American Heart Association and American Cancer Society and 15 other patient organizations on Sept. 24 released a set of principles for legislators to…

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