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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.

Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

Hello, Opportunity Here. Is Anyone Home? — COVID-19 gives us a chance to re-make our healthcare system for the better

Restart? Revamp? Revive? Renew? No one’s totally sure what we should be calling this, this reconfiguration (maybe that’s the word?), but it must be the brave new…

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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

The FCC distributed $100 million to health systems in order to improve telehealth infrastructure

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated nearly $105 million in funding to over 300 healthcare providers to boost telehealth infrastructure as coronavirus outbreaks continue, per Fierce Healthcare. The CARES…

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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

Congress Questions FCC on Details of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

Congress is asking the FCC to provide weekly reports, beginning this week, on the number of providers approved for funding from the telehealth program, as well as…

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Jun 25, 2020 •Blog

Telehealth Sustainability Requires a Willingness to Adapt to New Ideas

When its three-year telehealth pilot ended and the grant money ran out, Long Island Select Healthcare took stock of its options and decided to change its approach…

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Jun 25, 2020 •Blog

Telehealth as a Means to Health Care

The pandemic has changed the way we view healthcare, especially doctor visits for the entire family. The new normal to ensure the health and safety of all…

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Jun 25, 2020 •Blog

Telehealth best practices: Building a long-term workflow

In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak many health care practices were forced to implement telehealth as quickly as possible, and often didn’t have enough runway to…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

3 strategies for rural hospitals to use telehealth

By Madeline Chaillet and Darby Sullivan Health care executives have long reported interest in telehealth, recognizing its potential to alleviate barriers to access, among other challenges, in rural communities.…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

Medicare administrator: It’s time to get back to non-Covid health care

Near the outset of the grueling war against Covid-19, President Donald Trump directed my agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), to recommend the postponement of…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

Senators back sustaining telehealth momentum post pandemic

Dive Brief: Senators on both sides of the aisle signaled their support for permanently removing restrictions to telehealth use at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education,…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

SENATE HEARING DEMONSTRATES SUPPORT FOR PERMANENT CHANGES TO SOME TELEHEALTH POLICIES

Originating site and expansion of CMS reimbursement receive greatest support; parity pay may face an uphill battle. Senators at Health Committee hearing expressed support for continuing certain…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

4 STRATEGIES FOR RURAL HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS HIT BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Executive leaders from four rural health systems share solutions to the challenges their hospitals and health systems faced due to the coronavirus outbreak. A recent webinar by…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

Taskforce will recommend telehealth policies to keep after the pandemic

A group of advocates has launched a taskforce that will develop recommendations on telehealth services to keep in place beyond the coronavirus pandemic, The Taskforce on Telehealth…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

HIPAA Compliance for Work-From-Home or Telehealth Programs: Five Frequently Overlooked Considerations

COVID-19 has challenged health care providers to change the way they offer services — from shifting to an increasingly remote workforce to diving into telehealth. These adjustments…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

Introducing the HEALTH ACT: Expanding Medicare Reimbursement

Last week, new legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require Medicare to reimburse certain telehealth services post the public health emergency period.…

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Jun 24, 2020 •Blog

Telehealth May Be Here to Stay

The response to COVID-19 has increased access to telehealth, and those changes may be here to stay. Read on for expected changes in waivers, coming data privacy…

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