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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery.

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Supreme Court To Hear Argument Addressing Doctors’ Good Faith Defense To Pill Mill Prosecutions

NY Health Law

The Supreme Court will hear argument next week in two consolidated cases that will decide what standard applies when a doctor asserts a good faith defense to a criminal prosecution for unlawful drug distribution. The doctors argue that the trial courts failed to properly instruct the juries on their good faith defenses.

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7 Examples of What Could Happen Without Medical Credentialing

MedTrainer

Many other licensed healthcare providers must be credentialed: nurses, physical therapists, speech pathologists, and behavioral health therapists. For example, a healthcare organization verifies a provider’s state license by calling or searching the state license registration board. BLS/ACLS certifications status.

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Banner Health reduces generalized anxiety with digital therapeutics

Healthcare It News

"Second, there is a lack of licensed clinical professionals in the markets we serve. "If those factors align, we then take the specific vendor product through a governance group. And we wanted to use the software 'at the top of its license,' so to speak, by pairing it up to the proper type of patient.

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Telemedicine provider reports high teleconsultation uptake in the Philippines

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Medgate's round-the-clock online treatment programme connects patients to licensed specialist doctors; provides e-prescriptions, laboratory requests and certificate of medical teleconsultation; and facilitates medicine delivery. World governments have also delivered telehealth services, free of charge, for their citizens.

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The intersection of telehealth and AI: How can they reinforce each other?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a study conducted with one of our clients, we found 33% of patients initially planning in-person doctor visits opted for teleconsultation first, highlighting AI's role in guiding patient decisions. While our AI is not licensed for diagnosing, it plays a crucial role in influencing patient decisions.

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How health systems can better protect patient privacy

Healthcare It News

Before what he referred to as the major ramp up in attacks against healthcare that began in 2015, there was "an appreciable minority of patients who were uncomfortable providing all their information to their doctors," he told attendees at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston earlier this month.