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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., WHY IT MATTERS. In its letter, the CHI supported these provisions and urged Alexander and his colleagues to go further.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. So, naturally, many of them came here to explore their options.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

who sponsor membership fees as a benefit for their employees and their dependents, its Amazon parent company has experience partnering with health systems to transform care delivery and enhance its speed. One feature allows doctors to incorporate an electronic behavioral health screening for immediate evaluation through a Zoom integration.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A report released Tuesday by Foley & Lardner LLP found that the COVID-19 pandemic compelled state and federal policymakers to remove restrictions on and expand reimbursement for telehealth and virtual care at unprecedented rates. "The public health emergency did not create the telemedicine industry.

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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. Giving HHS the authority to determine appropriate telehealth services and providers. THE LARGER TREND.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Andrew Cuomo announced legislation this week that would expand access to telehealth throughout the state. "New Yorkers have adapted throughout 2020, but it is time to push telehealth to the next level in New York State and fully integrate it into our existing healthcare system. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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MARCH 25, 2021

A cohort study of more than 36 million people in the United States found a dramatic increase in telehealth use during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the first four months of the pandemic, telehealth visits accounted for 23.6% of all interactions – compared with 0.3% of contacts in 2019. WHY IT MATTERS.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

representatives has reintroduced a bill aimed at expanding access to telehealth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 legislation was introduced this past week by Rep. A bipartisan group of U.S. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., cosponsored by Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt., WHY IT MATTERS.

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MARCH 18, 2020

The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that during the coronavirus pandemic it will use discretion when enforcing HIPAA-compliance for telehealth communications tools. The agency also specifies that Facebook Live, Twitch, TikTok, other public-facing video communication "should not be used in the provision of telehealth."

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MAY 27, 2021

A study published this month in JMIR Human Factors from Syracuse University researchers found that physicians are in favor of expanding telehealth permanently. "On one hand, from this survey, I believe telehealth can increase access," she said. Patient-care visits conducted via telehealth also rose from 13.1%

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

With patients afraid to seek care in person and social distancing necessitating as little face-to-face contact as possible, many clinicians pivoted to telehealth – some with more success than others. Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. Best Buy Health. Bicycle Health. Hone Health. LifePoint Health. HCA Healthcare.

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APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2020

This past week, the Federal Communications Commission unveiled a new $200 million program to help fund telehealth programs for qualifying providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the plan aims to expand telehealth and remote monitoring nationwide as the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In China, family doctor contract services come in three packages: a basic, free public health service package, a basic package with options for personalisation, and an integrated medical treatment and nursing care package.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

"CMS and state efforts to evaluate and oversee telehealth are critical to meeting Medicaid enrollees' behavioral health needs and to safeguarding the Medicaid program from potential fraud, waste and abuse," wrote OIG officials. Even so, only 11 conduct telehealth-specific monitoring and oversight. THE LARGER TREND.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. In an announcement about the bipartisan bill, Rep.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

More than 230 healthcare and industry organizations wrote a letter to governors across the country asking for expanded access to telehealth via licensure flexibilities. to keep licensure and telehealth flexibilities in place throughout the duration of the federal public health emergency. THE LARGER TREND.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

A new report from CB Insights found that global telehealth investment rose for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 of 2021 – with teletherapy deals representing a substantial share. Retail giants in the United States appear to be betting big on telehealth, even amidst looming uncertainty about its regulatory future.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms.

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JUNE 19, 2020

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to inventory telehealth programs nationwide and evaluate ways to plan for public health emergencies using virtual care. " “Telehealth has been instrumental in connecting patients and health care professionals during COVID-19. " Sen.

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JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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JUNE 8, 2021

The medical group for Walmart Health has filed paperwork to do business in more than a dozen more states – and a spokesperson told Insider that the moves are not related to physical clinics. Instead, the preparation regards the retail giant's pending acquisition of telehealth vendor MeMD earlier this year. THE LARGER TREND.

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JUNE 30, 2020

Three hundred and forty healthcare organizations published an open letter Monday asking Senate and House leaders to permanently enshrine changes to policies that would make telehealth accessible in the long term. WHY IT MATTERS. Butterfield, D-N.C., and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., Other lawmakers, including Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn.,

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JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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JULY 23, 2020

Several healthcare organizations and elected officials came together on Thursday in support of legislation safeguarding access to telehealth after the pandemic. "We have seen the positive impact of telehealth across the nation," said Jen Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. " "Telehealth is not new.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Telehealth experienced sudden and massive growth starting a year ago, but it didn't happen everywhere. For the report, RAND researchers examined insurance claims from more than six million people with employer-based health insurance in 2019 and 2020. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Department of Veterans Affairs says it's collaborating with Apple to boost the availability of telehealth services for veterans across the U.S. The program connects qualifying veterans with iPads, helping 50,000 of them more easily take part in telehealth services and access other VA virtual healthcare services.

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JULY 8, 2022

Ann Mond Johnson is one of the top telehealth experts in the country. As CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, her work covers every aspect of this technological delivery of healthcare that has gone mainstream because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The future of telehealth is a hybrid model with in-person care.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. At the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Baker enacted an emergency order requiring insurers to cover telehealth in order to help ensure provider and patient safety.

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JUNE 17, 2020

In 2019, the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers received 4,039 requests, total, from providers looking for technical assistance or for more information about telehealth. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, one of the 14 U.S. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

He holds a master's degree in communications and leadership theory from Gonzaga University and has extensive experience in health system IT and clinical and business operations, as well as in the public health and environmental health sectors. You'll be talking about realizing value from telehealth programs.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible. And when people don't have access to quality Internet, she added, "that further hampers their access to quality telehealth care."

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APRIL 25, 2022

A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. The results suggested enduring interest in virtual care among physicians.

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JUNE 29, 2021

"Before the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was seen by many as the future of healthcare," said Sen. "But today, it is healthcare," he continued. "For more than a decade, bipartisanship on healthcare has been very hard to come by," said Schatz. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

"Some physicians may have been nimbler than others in making the transition [to telehealth], potentially influencing patients' experience of physician access and availability," wrote the research team. Early adopters (those who adopted telehealth during the week of March 15). WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Montana state senators this past week unanimously voted to pass a telehealth expansion bill out of committee. Rhonda Knudsen, R-Culbertson, by request of the state auditor, would safeguard telehealth coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Montana bill would: Prohibit contract provisions that impose site restrictions on telehealth.

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