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

Apr 20, 2022 Blog

How Remote Patient Engagement Solutions Reduce Readmissions

Digital Patient Engagement: How to Address Challenges in Adoption Misalignment and miscommunication of strategies lead to challenges among healthcare professionals and their team culture. A reluctance to…

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Apr 15, 2022 Blog

As remote patient monitoring expands, so does CPT to describe it

To see where and how the use of digital health tools is growing, take a look at the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, which opened the door to…

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Apr 11, 2022 Blog

AMA Survey Shows Widespread Enthusiasm For Telehealth

A survey by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that 85 percent of physicians now use telehealth and 70 percent plan to continue using virtual services after the pandemic.…

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Apr 5, 2022 Blog

Alliance submits comments in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Strengthening Community Health Through Technology RFI

The Alliance for Connected Care submitted comments in response to the request for information from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on strengthening…

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Mar 12, 2022 Blog

New Bill Aims to Extend Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver

A bill introduced in the Senate aims to extend CMS‘ Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver for two years after the COVID-19 public health emergency reaches an…

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Mar 1, 2022 Blog

Using Hospital-At-Home Services to Lower Readmissions, Increase Capacity

A safety-net health system leveraged its home hospital program, launched a few months before the Omicron surge, to bring acute care to patients and alleviate capacity challenges.…

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Feb 25, 2022 Blog

Speaker: ‘Potential is high’ for remote patient monitoring in difficult-to-control asthma

PHOENIX — Although challenges remain, remote digital health practices can be implemented for most aspects of asthma evaluation and management, according to a speaker at the American…

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Feb 12, 2022 American Telemedicine Association (ATA)

Washington gets more pressure on telehealth reform

A bipartisan bill has been introduced to expand telehealth access for two years. Hundreds of advocates are calling on Congress to ensure permanent access. Healthcare advocates have…

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Nov 22, 2021 Blog

Critical Access Hospital Telehealth Guide

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Oct 26, 2021 Blog

FCC ANNOUNCES 36 NEWLY APPROVED PROJECTS FOR CONNECTED CARE PILOT PROGRAM

Program Will Support Connected Care Services Across Country, Focus on Low-Income and Veteran Patients — WASHINGTON, October 26, 2021—Today the Federal Communications Commission approved a Public…

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Oct 21, 2021 Remote Patient Monitoring

Can Remote Patient Monitoring Be the New Standard in Primary Care of Chronic Diseases, Post-COVID-19?

Abstract Background: One lesson from the current COVID-19 pandemic is the need to optimize health care provision outside of traditional settings, and potentially over longer periods of time.…

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Oct 20, 2021 American Telemedicine Association (ATA)

ATA urges Congress to strike in-person visit from telehealth rule

The American Telemedicine Association is pressing Congress to repeal a rule in the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule that would require an in-person visit every six months in…

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Oct 20, 2021 Remote Patient Monitoring

CMS Faces Calls to Improve Remote Patient Monitoring Coverage in 2022 PFS

Telehealth advocates are submitting recommendations to CMS to improve coverage for remote patient monitoring services in the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule. By Eric Wicklund September 03, 2021 – With…

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Oct 18, 2021 Blog

What Is Telehealth and How Does It Work?

There are services on the internet that let you track COVID-19 in your area or recover from burnout related to COVID. But are these telehealth, telemedicine, or neither? The terms…

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Oct 13, 2021 Blog

Virtual care with remote monitoring reduces patients’ pain, drug errors: study

Patients monitored virtually after nonelective surgery had significantly reduced pain and greater detection and correction of medication errors, according to researchers at McMaster University in Ontario. The…

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