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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By extending the Expansion of Buprenorphine Treatment via Telemedicine Encounter and Continuity of Care via Telemedicine for Veterans Affairs Patients final rules – first promulgated Jan. One concern has been limiting virtual prescribing access to terminally ill patients in hospice care. 17 – to Dec.

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DEA plans to create a special telehealth registration for prescribers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To prevent patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications, the DEA is offering three types of special registration: Telemedicine Prescribing Registration - authorizes qualified clinician practitioners to prescribe Schedule III-V controlled substances.

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

Health Populi

What will telemedicine look like in 2030? Telemedicine used to be about solving access to no care,” Kaveh introduced the conversation. Now, it’s about serving people who already have care through different mechanisms.”. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform.

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Rush, Ochsner Health System partner on telemedicine, Epic EHR

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Rush Health Systems and Ochsner Health System are partnering to bring innovations in telemedicine to patients. In addition to gaining access to Ochsner’s telemedicine capabilities, Rush’s hospitals and primary care clinics also will be able to tap into Ochsner’s billing practices and other support services.

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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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2020 Roadmap: Overcoming Telemedicine Barriers

GlobalMed

If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.

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Connected Care Is Essential to Telemedicine’s Success

American Well

Pitt presents the flaws in the common approach to telemedicine and how it must change to address the business objectives, including: Journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Reducing internal costs for patient care. Telemedicine as a brand is flawed. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.