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CMS Finalizes Changes for Telehealth Services for 2023

Healthcare Law Today

According to the September 2021 Medicare Telemedicine Snapshot , telehealth services have increased more than 30-fold since the start of the PHE and have been utilized by more than half of the Medicare population. Following its standard evaluation process for such requests, CMS considered whether they met appropriate categories.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. "Ask questions such as who has devices?

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Virtual care management growth may slow, but will keep climbing, analysts say

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It highlighted the importance of thinking beyond synchronous, video-focused terms for virtual care, instead focusing on longitudinal monitoring and targeted use of tools. Many leading tools, it said, have evolved from simple data-aggregation and reporting to automating activity and condensing recommendations.

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In-Depth: 2024 Best in KLAS Overall and Category Awards

HIT Consultant

Most Improved Awards Most Improved Software Product: Lightbeam Health Solutions (population health management) Most Improved Services Solution: AGS Health (extended business office services) Most Improved Physician Practice Product: eClinicalWorks EHR/PM for small, independent practices Best in KLAS Winners by Category The 2024 Best in KLAS awards (..)

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

The pandemic ushered in millions of peoples’ first digital health experiences, many of which will persist according to the 23rd Annual U.S. To ensure a fair sample, CTA drew three datasets for the general population along with an Hispanic oversample and an oversample for people 65 years of age and older. in the next 12 months.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Strategically speaking. A framework for tactical action.

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Telepsychiatry saves east Texas hospitals $18 million over 7 years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the early 2000s, the state of Texas was in the midst of a widely recognized, multi-decade crisis from lack of mental health services for people in need. Psychiatric facilities were above capacity, leaving patients in mental health emergencies with either jail or emergency rooms as their only options. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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