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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With funding support from a broad range of federal agencies – Department of Commerce, HRSA, USDA and FCC – the health system has worked with more than 150 community hospitals, clinics, medical practices, schools and other healthcare entities to bring specialty care to underserved communities and patients. THE PROBLEM.

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What will the next year look like for telehealth? 'Well above pre-pandemic levels'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We expect there will be some ebbs and flows in the overall number of telehealth visits, driven by a combination of ongoing COVID-19 spikes, such as the recent Delta variant, changes in federal policies and waivers for reimbursement, and further integration of telehealth services into care models across service lines.

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Maine health system embraces telehealth, but looks for policy clarity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In Maine, COVID-19 case counts have been relatively low compared with the rest of the country, though that number has been slowly climbing. Before COVID-19, Martel noted, CMH was not broadly relying on telehealth, apart from as-needed tele-interpretive services and, on some occasions, in the NICU and for stroke and neurologic services.

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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. How to optimize RPM for physicians.

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One expert travels the country to see how telehealth is holding up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The requirements of the contagious COVID-19 and the subsequent loosening of governmental regulations and commercial payer rules have finally propelled telehealth into the mainstream. Before the COVID-19 pandemic there was not a lot of back and forth between virtual and in-person modalities. Travel to virtually any U.S.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

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The third chart bolsters a fact we know-we-know about patients’ faith in health care providers as trusted data stewards : that is that apps recommended by doctors and hospitals more likely make patients feel more comfortable about using them than digital tools not vetted by a trusted source. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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NATIONAL 14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals’ payment bump in FY2024 American Hospital Association voices support for telehealth expansion bill Behavioral health market to hit $262B by 2029 Biden administration moves to establish ‘guardrails’ for telehealth prescriptions CMS Officials Confirm End of PHE Nursing (..)