Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS. Despite bipartisan support such legislation has failed to gather significant momentum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Kyle Brewer, telehealth administrator at University of Mississippi Medical Center; Kuldeep CEO of Biofourmis; Laura Kreofsky, VP at Pivot Point Consulting, and Neil Patel, president of Healthbox, offered their perspectives on the new connected health tools and data management imperatives needed to make RPM work.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Throughout the recent Connected Health Conference, the key theme was the need to balance technology with the human element. Pamela, a 78 year old Medicare patient has just been discharged from a Northwell Hospital for a heart failure episode. Think about a patient’s journey today.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

“With our 65+ Medicare population at Northwell Health, we realized that one big barrier was some patients still have a flip phone which will not work with our chatbot”, Hallie explains. . “We needed 6-8 months to get staff buy- in and patient consent”, admits Hallie. Build program awareness with patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2020

The groups are also asking for an accompanying provision that would give Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar the authority to waive the restrictions on telehealth visits during a public health emergency currently imposed by Medicare. THE LARGER TREND. " Congress should consider Sec. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

As was requested by several leading healthcare technology organizations this past week, Congress has included a provision that waives some restrictions for Medicare telehealth coverage as part of its new COVID-19 supplemental funding package. The bill next goes to the White House for President Trump's signature.

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