Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

The Australian government has made available two new subsidised telephone consult services for patients living in COVID-19 hotspot areas. In a statement on Thursday, Health Minister Greg Hunt said the new Medicare items will enable doctors to provide 20 minutes or more of telephone consultations. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These may be technologies used from the home or that a doctor uses to improve or support healthcare services. Telehealth providers saw a rapid rise in the need for remote services with the initial spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. This allowed telehealth to be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. Parker is using the Healow application by eClinicalWorks for its telemedicine program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A frequently discussed consequence of the COVID-19 crisis is the uptick in reliance on telehealth, with both patients and clinicians pivoting quickly to virtual care in order to minimize in-person contact. "COVID-19 has forced people into virtual mediums," Flannery continued. "Companies like ours.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2022

COVID has shown us that telemedicine is effective and easy to use. With providers and clinicians under increasing strain from staffing gaps and other issues, telemedicine is a valuable solution. When homebound COVID patients need Regeneron monoclonal antibodies, EMS workers on-site deliver the treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). There are a great many telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A group of legislators from the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bill aimed at temporarily extending telehealth flexibilities established during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted how rural Americans receive health care in fundamental ways," said Rep.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.

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American Medical Compliance

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an influx of doctor burnout. A recent study published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physician burnout increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic following a six-year drop that ended in 2020. doctors was 62.8%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

hospitals via telemedicine, has sued the U.S. Despite HHS instituting waivers making tele-ICU services payable under Medicare, RICU says it has been unable to expand its services to more hospitals – because the agency disallows payment for critical-care telemedicine if the physician is located outside the United States.

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Healthcare Law Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As the pandemic shifts from an acute phase to one in which we learn to live with COVID-19 as an endemic presence, some entrepreneurs and investors may fear what comes next for virtual medicine. states have ended emergency legal waivers introduced during the pandemic that allowed patients to be seen by doctors who practiced elsewhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Telehealth, according to the federal government, has been "transformational" to the delivery of healthcare and "underpinned much" of its COVID-19 response. Since last year March, over 16 million patients have received over 80 million COVID-19 telehealth services under the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. Patients in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read. introduced legislation earlier this month to codify Medicare reimbursement of virtual care at FQHCs and RHCs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. This is the second time the bill has been reintroduced. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has also taught clinicians and health care administrators about the value of data at the ready.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Data was collected in April 2021 from Australians aged 18 and over, who had visited the doctor at least once a year, and had had a healthcare appointment within the last 12 months. According to Capterra’s survey findings, 92% of telemedicine users in Australia had experienced telemedicine for the first time during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

Physicians are changing the patterns of their practice because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly half of them using telehealth to treat patients, up from just 18% in 2018. The 2018 survey had indicated that telemedicine use among physicians was more prominent among younger doctors. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2022

"They did so through a circular scheme of kickbacks and bribes paid to doctors and solicited from marketing companies, pharmacies, and providers of durable medical equipment." Law enforcement agencies have ramped up the pressure on telehealth fraud, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

billion of that loss involved allegedly fraudulent claims related to telemedicine. "We have seen all too often criminals who engage in health care fraud – stealing from taxpayers while jeopardizing the health of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries," said Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Gary L. More than $1.1

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Law Gurus

DECEMBER 31, 2020

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the “CMS”) relaxed some rules to expand access to telehealth, including through audio-only communication platforms. With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the public health emergency is expected to be brought to an end.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Department of Justice announced this week that a Florida laboratory owner had pleaded guilty for his role in a $73 million Medicare kickback scheme. According to the agency , the conspiracy involved paying a telemedicine company to arrange for doctors to authorize medically unnecessary genetic testing. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, and Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire – would allow Medicare to enter into voluntary, value-based arrangements with medical groups to provide acute care to patients in skilled nursing facilities using a combination of telehealth and on-site staff. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S., "Through telemedicine, we pushed the frontlines to locations far from our hospitals and doctor's offices," said Mann. "Medicare announced its coverage at noon, and we saw our first [Medicare] patient at 5 that day."

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2020

One of the biggest health IT related news items to come out was the announcement by Vice President Mike Pence that HHS was issuing a regulation to permit doctors to practice across state lines. State Medical Licensure is something that has baffled many of us that have worked in healthcare.

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YouCompli

JULY 12, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic opened the door to greater use of telehealth services, and healthcare providers and consumers walked through it. In fact, Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth to receive 12 percent of their services during the first year of the pandemic. This was more than two in five Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

The challenge now, says Dr. Joe Kvedar, president-elect of the American Telemedicine Association, will be integrating in-person care back into these reshaped clinical workflows. Because of fears around COVID-19, he said, seemingly "everyone has pulse oximeters." Telehealth in the long term. Now, it's for everyone."

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

epicenters of the COVID-19 crisis, were some of the first to feel the brunt of the disease's effects. "But primary care doctors are the front line of healthcare in this country, and their patients still needed care." "My health insurance may have coverage for telemedicine, and yours may not."

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. ” The report’s revenue data is shown here in a table from Kaufman Hall’s analysis of the July 2020 data.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted. One such new area is healthcare at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Although licensure waivers have been of particular importance during the COVID-19 pandemic, Claudia Duck Tucker, vice president of government affairs at Teladoc, predicted that, on that topic, at least, "everything will go back to pre-COVID." "If there's a silver lining in COVID, it's telehealth."

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American Medical Compliance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most medical providers transitioned into online consultations with patients using Telehealth with the help of Medicare. This will allow for the number of locations that people receive telemedicine to grow over time. House passes bill to expand COVID-era telehealth services. Schnell, M.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

FINANCIAL DISPARITIES Even if physician numbers were at replacement levels, the cost of education and massive student loan debts encourage new doctors to pursue higher-salaried positions, which are more typical at hospitals that serve wealthier communities. due to COVID-19 and will stay important 2. So what can be done?

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