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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Telehealth
Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Telehealth
8 must-know lessons from telehealth’s new normal
From managing cybersecurity imperatives with at-home patients as a new X factor, to surfing the data tsunami of remote patient monitoring, experts from NIST, FCC, Mount Sinai,…
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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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Remote Patient Monitoring
Payer Strategies For Home Healthcare, Remote Patient Monitoring
By implementing certain home healthcare and remote patient monitoring strategies, payers can boost their value-based care delivery. By Kelsey Waddill September 25, 2020 – Home healthcare and remote monitoring are…
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Medicare
CMS touts lower premiums and benefits of Medicare Advantage plans
Over 94% of Medicare Advantage plans will offer additional telehealth benefits, up from about 58% of plans offering telehealth benefits in 2020. Susan Morse, Managing Editor More Medicare…
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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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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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American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
American Telemedicine Association Responds to Medicare Telehealth 2021 Proposed Rule
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) issued a policy comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), advocating for telehealth-friendly changes to Medicare’s telehealth coverage and reimbursement rules. The…
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