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Reaching rural patients through telehealth
We’ve come a long way in medicine over the last decade, but the struggle to merely access quality health services for the 15 to 20 percent of…
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Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
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4 Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring for Doctors
Technology has irrevocably changed medicine. Though there have been a few hiccups over the course of human history in healthcare when it comes to integrative technology, most…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is rolling out a new telehealth-enabled payment model for 911 triage
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected more than 200 emergency transport providers to participate in its Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport (ET3) model…
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Humanizing health care with virtual health
Expanding the patient-centric care delivery model Ken Abrams, MD, MBA, Managing Director, National Chief Physician Executive, Deloitte Consulting LLPSummer Knight, MD, MBA, Virtual Health Platform Portfolio Leader,…
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Payment Outlook: 60% of MA Plans Cover Telehealth, 95% of Post-Acute Providers Subject to Alternate Models
By Alex Spanko | January 26, 2020 The new fee-for-service Medicare model absorbed much of the oxygen around nursing home payment reform in 2019, but 2020 — as well as…
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Gingrich & DeSantis: A health care revolution is coming – It could give you 24/7 access to a doctor
In Washington’s increasingly toxic atmosphere – filled with impeachment hearings, the jostling of the Democratic primary, and an obsession with trivial gaffes and scandal over substance –…
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Home health agencies expanding, rolling out more telehealth services
Author: Linda Wilson Dive Brief: Home health agencies are growing their businesses, with 43% of them planning to expand or add services in the next two years,…
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Telehealth creates a new kind of health care experience
Maria knew something was wrong. A working mom in her mid-thirties, Maria has diabetes — and she was feeling more fatigued than usual. She thought it could…
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California Increases Telemedicine Payments to Reduce Medicaid Costs
Medi-Cal, California’s sprawling Medicaid program, is working under new rules expanding reimbursement for telemedicine. Medi-Cal currently serves more than 13.5 million residents. Telemedicine is increasingly seen as…
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Telehealth strategies for the next 3-5 years: 5 key points
Health systems across the country are developing telehealth strategies, both in rural and urban populations. Telehealth can refer to virtual visits and other consumer-facing digital interactions, or…
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‘Telehealth’ Poised to Change the Face of Health Care
Fifteen or 20 years ago, the idea that we all would one day carry around mini-computers through which we could access virtually all of recorded information —…
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Industry Voices—3 steps to reducing readmissions amid an aging population
by Chris McCann Oct 23, 2019 Hospital readmissions are an expensive problem in the U.S. both for providers and patients. According to a study by the Agency…
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California Enacts Telehealth Payment Parity, Boosts Asynchronous Care
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed several telehealth bills, making the state among a dozen to support payment parity, store-and-forward care and telemedicine abortions. By Eric Wicklund October…
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California Governor Signs New Telehealth Insurance Law
On October 11, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law requiring commercial health insurance coverage and payment parity for telehealth services. The law will benefit patients by…
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Brian Donohue column: The potential of telehealth for cancer patients in Virginia
A cancer diagnosis changes everything. First, you receive this earth-shattering news and then, you enter the maze of cancer care, with countless visits to specialists and other…
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