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Cybersecurity frameworks in APAC don’t support remote care: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Existing cybersecurity frameworks for healthcare across Asia-Pacific are not suited for remote care management. Consulting which looked into the cybersecurity landscape of the region and how policies and other measures apply in the rising remote care segment.

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Helsinki's digital services creates tools for seniors to stay in their homes

Mobi Health News

The remote care tools are also helping tackle problems of loneliness with virtual group programs.

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Helsinki's digital services create tools for seniors to stay in their homes

Mobi Health News

The remote care tools are also helping tackle problems of loneliness with virtual group programs.

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BT’s Etc. to scale preventative remote care initiative in North of England

DigitalHealth

BT Group's incubation hub, Etc., is expanding its preventative remote care initiative, with phase 2 rolling out to 228,000 patients based in Cheshire.

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During pandemic, telehealth visits soar from 10 per week to 300 at group practice

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits. It also helps reduce expensive and unnecessary ER and urgent care visits, he added.

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ATA, businesses ask Congress to expand telehealth options for workers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association this week sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting that they continue allowing telehealth and remote care services to be treated as an excepted benefit. But that has the potential to change, noted the business groups. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Bipartisan bills in House, Senate seek to increase telehealth in nursing homes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, and Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire – would allow Medicare to enter into voluntary, value-based arrangements with medical groups to provide acute care to patients in skilled nursing facilities using a combination of telehealth and on-site staff. THE LARGER TREND.

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