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Telehealth, Right Here, Right Now: Calling on Congress to Vote for America’s Health and Well-being

Health Populi

That was, in fact, the name of a research paper I wrote on behalf of the California Health Care Foundation in 2008. If wed been able to pick this up a week earlier, we could have prevented the acute admission to the hospital. It dawned on some of us that home is where the exam room has to be.”

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

Mend

Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent. Those provisions were met with approval, and also some disappointment.