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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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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

Telehealth Gives a Free Health Clinic a Lifeline to its Patient Population

The Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California is using a new telehealth platform to improve access and care for thousands of residents in and around Oakland…

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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

Ready or Not … Here Comes a Global Pandemic: A Legal and Practical Overview of the New Normal to Patient Healthcare – Telehealth

What a time to be alive. Despite this phrase being a personal favorite, I would guess that most of us think of these six-words—or some variation thereof—on…

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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

At-Home Pulse Oximeters: The ‘It’ Gadget of the COVID-19 Outbreak

Jen Singer became sick with an unidentified respiratory illness while visiting Seattle in February, before many knew enough to be worried about COVID-19. The fever and coughing…

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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

Telehealth programs improve blood sugar for rural Americans with diabetes

HealthDay)—If you have diabetes and live in rural America, the closest specialist may be hours away. But new research shows that effective help may be as close…

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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

Liability in the Telehealth Era

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust upon the healthcare industry countless profound and likely permanent changes, not the least of which is in telehealth. Over the next several…

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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

Sudden Future: The Rise of Telemedicine During COVID-19

When the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began to spread rapidly in the US in early March, nearly every institution across the country was given a Darwinian ultimatum: adapt,…

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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

5 actions to fuel the digital health momentum

The COVID-19 public health emergency has forcefully opened the door for widespread adoption of telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and other digital health platforms by patients and providers…

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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

Caring for American seniors at home during crisis, and beyond

Last month, I had the immense honor of testifying before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging to take part in an important discussion on caring for America’s aging…

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Jun 24, 2020 Blog

Telehealth is working, let’s keep it that way

COVID-19 HAS HAD a devastating impact on our lives, our healthcare system, and our economy, but one silver lining has been the immediate and dramatic expansion of telehealth services. We’d be…

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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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