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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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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

Health Populi

If you want to know more about these issues, check out several of the panels convened at the #ATANexus conference that met this week in Phoenix — LinkedIn, Twitter, and health media covered the meeting in detail.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. What should doctor’s and nurse’s competencies be ten years from now?” The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world.

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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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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality "Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process" is a free quality improvement program designed to help practices improve the cancer diagnostic process. What is the status of the "AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process."

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Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Their findings, published this past week in Health Affairs , demonstrate the positive impact that temporary federal changes to telehealth-related regulations have had on virtual care adoption. At the same time, the researchers noted, several hurdles remain for primary care providers when it comes to integrating telemedicine.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

What is Synchronous Telemedicine? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines synchronous telemedicine as "live video-conferencing," which is a "two-way audiovisual link between a patient and a care provider." " What is Asynchronous Telemedicine?