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DEA and HHS push off new telemedicine prescribing rules to end-of-year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The DEA has had a responsibility to create a telehealth prescribing registry under the 2018 Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act, known as the SUPPORT Act. One concern has been limiting virtual prescribing access to terminally ill patients in hospice care.

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DEA plans to create a special telehealth registration for prescribers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" The Alliance for Connected Care said in a statement that it is "very concerned to see language in the proposed rulemaking mandating what portion of patient care can be offered through telemedicine" and deemed it an inappropriate guardrail.

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Health SXSW 2018 | The 33 charts Super Guide

33 Charts - Digital Health

Headed to SXSW 2018? I’ve done the heavy lifting by curating a super list of the best health care talks and events at SXSW interactive. Think of it as the ultimate guide for the health care power user. If it’s your first time to SXSW you might stop in on SXSW 2018 – What You Need to Know. So here we go.

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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford

Health Populi

Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. First, connected care: one in five U.S. In 2018, after Amazon acquired PillPack, the company filed a patent for Alexa that would observe a consumer’s cough or sneeze and predict the onset of depression or disease.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver? Deloitte defines “virtual health” as enabling continuous, connected care via digital and telecommunication technologies.

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CVS Health unveils new virtual primary care platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This new platform aims to enable more timely access to virtual and in-person care. Even before their $68 billion merger in 2018 , both CVS and Aetna have, separately and together, both been refining and expanding their virtual and in-person offerings, dating back to 2014 with CVS MinuteClinic and its extensive network of major U.S.

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FCC boosts rural healthcare funding by $198M, with eye toward telehealth expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The FCC's Rural Health Care Program has seen intense interest in recent years from small providers nationwide seeking high-speed broadband to enable telehealth and remote patient-monitoring – so much so that the demand has outpaced the funding cap. In addition, eligible providers must be non-profit or public. ON THE RECORD.