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Taming the beast of multistate provider licensure for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face?

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How to Get Better Care to More People? Address Burnout, Bridge Insights, Embed Sustainability – the Philips Future Health Index 2024

Health Populi

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world. ” The post How to Get Better Care to More People?

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

When it comes to clinical telemedicine , there are two general categories that most “sharing” technologies tend to fall into: live real-time and store-and-forward technologies. Real-time telemedicine technologies, as you might have guessed, are more immediate.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018.

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In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones.

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How To Become a Telehealth Provider

GlobalMed

Yet for some clinicians, telehealth is still shrouded in mystery – often because they’re not sure how to get started and become a telehealth provider. But today’s telemedicine tools can enable evidence-based care and data sharing. Evaluate telemedicine solutions. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail. Educate your patients.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Over the past six months, as hospitals and health systems have pursued telemedicine and remote patient monitoring programs in earnest – whether launching new one or expanding existing ones – they've all had some learning curves and growing pains to manage. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.