Telehealth

5 Oct 2020

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Alert: FCC Offers Guidance to Healthcare Providers Seeking Funding for Telehealth Services

The Federal Communications Commission released a public notice to help eligible healthcare providers apply for funding through the FCC’s Connected Care Pilot Program. The $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program is designed to offset eligible healthcare providers’ costs for connected care services, particularly to low-income Americans and veterans. Applications are expected to open soon, and interested entities should […]

5 Oct 2020

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Taming the wild telehealth frontier

COVID-19 has forever changed the way our healthcare system thinks about and delivers care. It has brought about a paradigm shift, giving rise to digital health technologies such as virtual care and remote patient engagement which are essential – now more than ever. These innovative technologies, particularly telehealth and asynchronous communications platforms, offer a better […]

5 Oct 2020

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Ensuring the Future of Tele-Mental Health

There has been a 4000% increase in commercial telehealth claims year-to-year and 1/3 of them are mental health claims. COVID-19 has precipitated a mental health pandemic. Not only can the virus have direct neuropsychiatric effects, but the necessary public health measures we are taking to stem the spread, inconsistent messaging, and the pervasive uncertainty about the present and the […]

Using Telehealth to Make Patient Rounding More Efficient and Effective

5 Oct 2020

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Using Telehealth to Make Patient Rounding More Efficient and Effective

In the latest Healthcare Strategies podcast, Sri Bharadwaj of Franciscan Health explains how the Indiana health system uses telehealth to improve patient care and care team collaboration. By Eric Wicklund September 28, 2020 – For hospitals across the country, rounding is both a vital and complex process, pulling together staff and specialists from across the enterprise to collaborate […]

FCC Extends Telehealth Program Purchase Deadline

5 Oct 2020

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FCC Extends Telehealth Program Purchase Deadline

The FCC has extended the deadline for its telehealth program recipients to use their money to buy eligible devices and services to the end of the year. The FCC has given out $200 million in CARES Act telehealth subsidies for healthcare providers to purchase tablets and smart phones and other telehealth provision tech, as well […]

The successes – and pitfalls – of using telehealth for home-based primary care

2 Oct 2020

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We’ve failed in chronic care management It’s time to change course.

In rearchitecting the system by training every care provider in every specialty, and enable lower-cost providers and communities, we will provide a new model of care where a physician isn’t the person who helps us when we’re sick — they help us be healthy. By STEPHANIE TILENIUS / Sep 28, 2020 at 5:29 PM The way we […]

Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring Crucial to Long-Term Cardiac Health Implications of COVID-19

1 Oct 2020

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To succeed with telehealth, know your “webside manner”

Telehealth has been in some level of development in many U.S. physician practices for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has thrust it to the forefront of patient care, often before doctors have been properly trained to do it. A webinar hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital, “Crossing the Virtual Chasm: Rethinking Curriculum, Competency, and Culture in […]

1 Oct 2020

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Using telehealth to manage chronic diseases

COVID-19 provided a much-needed catalyst for widespread integration of telemedicine. Now it’s time to use it against our biggest long-term health challenges. Telemedicine is not a new idea; in fact, its roots can be traced back to the 1920s, when radio transmissions were used to send medical advice to ships at sea. Recent years have […]

COVID-19 forced reluctant mental health providers to try telemedicine. Now there’s no going back.

1 Oct 2020

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COVID-19 forced reluctant mental health providers to try telemedicine. Now there’s no going back.

For years, telemedicine has been touted as a way to address mental health provider shortages in Greater Minnesota or as an option that could help stave off the looming mass retirement of the state’s aging psychologist workforce. But, despite the promise offered by technology, most mental health providers in Minnesota avoided making the move to […]

8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

1 Oct 2020

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth’s new normal

From managing cybersecurity imperatives with at-home patients as a new X factor, to surfing the data tsunami of remote patient monitoring, experts from NIST, FCC, Mount Sinai, Yale, Leapfrog and others offer insights on demand. By Mike Miliard September 28, 2020 11:53 AM Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it […]

The Promise and Potential for Telehealth in Home Health

1 Oct 2020

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Telehealth during COVID-19 pandemic: will the future last?

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) constitutes a major pillar of secondary prevention measures in cardiac patients, in particular for those with coronary artery disease and heart failure, but also for patients with other cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), such as valvular heart disease, heart transplantation, congenital heart disease, or patients with an extensive cardiovascular risk profile.1 Hospital- or centre-based, multidisciplinary […]

Payer Strategies For Home Healthcare, Remote Patient Monitoring

29 Sep 2020

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Payer Strategies For Home Healthcare, Remote Patient Monitoring

By implementing certain home healthcare and remote patient monitoring strategies, payers can boost their value-based care delivery. By Kelsey Waddill September 25, 2020 – Home healthcare and remote monitoring are increasingly critical to providing value-based care, improving quality while keeping costs low. Experts have discovered that, in some cases, remote patient monitoring can provide superior quality of data […]

CMS touts lower premiums and benefits of Medicare Advantage plans

29 Sep 2020

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CMS touts lower premiums and benefits of Medicare Advantage plans

Over 94% of Medicare Advantage plans will offer additional telehealth benefits, up from about 58% of plans offering telehealth benefits in 2020. Susan Morse, Managing Editor More Medicare Advantage plans in 2021 will offer telehealth benefits. Average 2021 premiums for Medicare Advantage plans are expected to decline 34.2% from 2017 while plan choice, benefits, and enrollment […]

Executive Order Aimed Toward Spurring Federal Changes That Will Support Access to Telehealth Post-Pandemic

29 Sep 2020

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How the Healthcare Industry, Worker Roles will Evolve as a Result of COVID-19

September 26, 2020John Danaher The coronavirus pandemic has shed light on major imbalances within the healthcare system, specifically, the supply and demand of allied health professionals, and the urgent need to invest in community-based care that prioritizes vulnerable populations. The coronavirus pandemic has shed light on major imbalances within the healthcare system, specifically, the supply […]

Providers pushing for more telehealth flexibility after CMS opens up virtual visits to Medicare Advantage plans

29 Sep 2020

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53 Medicare Advantage Plans to Offer Hospice in 2021, Palliative Care to Grow

Among Medicare Advantage plans, 53 will be covering hospice and palliative care in 2021 through the value-based insurance design (VBID) model, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Medicare Advantage is seeing record-high levels of participation for 2021 among beneficiaries, reaching about 42% for 2021, CMS reported. Starting in 2021, payers […]

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