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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine." In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region. '" PROPOSAL.

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Senator Tina Smith: 'We have to learn from our experiences' on telehealth

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" “Telehealth has been instrumental in connecting patients and health care professionals during COVID-19. "COVID is not the great equalizer," Smith said, pointing out that communities of color have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Tina Smith, D-Minn., Bill Cassidy, R-La.,

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. How to navigate a new policy landscape.

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A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response

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But to focus on these failures risks forgetting the collective framing and collective policy response that dominated the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This dangerously obscures what went wrong and limits our political imagination for the future of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging crises.

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