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DEA and HHS extend virtual prescribing for controlled substances through 2025

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Nearly half of physicians using telehealth, up from just 18% in 2018

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Physicians are changing the patterns of their practice because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly half of them using telehealth to treat patients, up from just 18% in 2018. The 2018 survey had indicated that telemedicine use among physicians was more prominent among younger doctors. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Kennedy, Jr.,

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DEA plans to create a special telehealth registration for prescribers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

They have said that the agency has a responsibility to create one under the 2018 Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act or SUPPORT Act. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Connected health tools help seniors, but a digital divide persists

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The findings echo broader trends highlighted by the National Poll on Healthy Aging conducted in 2o23, which documented a jump in patient portal usage to 78 percent in 2023 from 51 percent in 2018.

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Digital retail pharmacy NowRx expanding into telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual pharmacies have become an increasingly large sector of the digital health marketplace in recent years, with Amazon launching Amazon Pharmacy this past year after acquiring PillPack in 2018. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Revisiting Some of 2018’s Most Significant Healthcare IT Topics in 2020

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 3 min In our 2018 Healthcare IT Year in Review post, we discussed the four most significant stories of 2018. The post Revisiting Some of 2018’s Most Significant Healthcare IT Topics in 2020 appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.