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

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The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Report shows 'vast improvement' in state telehealth reimbursement policies

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A report released Tuesday by Foley & Lardner LLP found that the COVID-19 pandemic compelled state and federal policymakers to remove restrictions on and expand reimbursement for telehealth and virtual care at unprecedented rates. "The public health emergency did not create the telemedicine industry.

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

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It's very clear to one and all that the pandemic has truly brought telemedicine into the mainstream. And how will near-term changes in healthcare delivery affect telemedicine? What kinds of operational changes will healthcare see in the next six to 12 months, and how will they impact telemedicine?

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How we can avoid the 'telehealth cliff'

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It's become common knowledge, at this point, that the flexibilities enabled by the federal government at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency prompted an atmospheric jump in telehealth use. in his opening remarks for a panel at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo this month.

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

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Telemedicine is on an all-time high. 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.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

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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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Texas makes abortion via telehealth a crime

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Abortion via telemedicine was already prohibited in the state, as reported by NPR. The new law notes that patients who use telemedicine for abortions are not criminally liable, although some states have prosecuted individuals under other laws after they obtained abortion medication online.