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Telemedicine: What Slows Down the Healthcare of the Future

HIT Consultant

This article explores the challenges of telemedicine and examines solutions to resolve current issues. Main Obstacles the Telemedicine is Facing Today. Not only did the pandemic accelerate the implementation of telemedicine, but remote health services became a necessity. On the legal side, telemedicine faces two main drawbacks.

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Introduction to Telebehavioral Health

AIHC

Telemedicine is considered to be under the umbrella of telehealth and refers specifically to clinical services. Telehealth and telemedicine cover similar services, including medical education, remote patient monitoring, patient consultation via videoconferencing, wireless health applications, and transmission of imaging and medical reports.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments.

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New York Doubles Down on Telehealth

NY Health Law

While the laws governing telehealth were becoming gradually more permissive, progress was slow. Similarly, the impact of the use of telehealth on professional malpractice and misconduct will need to be monitored on an ongoing basis.

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The Pathology (and Politics) of Liability Shields

Bill of Health

Other increasingly viable employee lawsuits are ADA disability discrimination or Title VII claims , possibly bolstered by federal government guidance from the U.S. Ek and allowed to stand by the state supreme court in 2022). Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T in Indiana aging-in-place work.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

KXAN investigates Does UT Tyler Health Science Center’s deal with private equity shield doctors from malpractice suits? Monopolizes Care Physician charged in $20.7M