When the dust settles and COVID-19 is finally behind us, there are many aspects of this “new normal” that I will not miss, but there’s a lot that I hope sticks around, like valuable time at home with my family and creative ways to stay connected virtually. As a society, though, our most important lasting […]
Dive Brief: The American Hospital Association wants HHS to ensure the telehealth flexibilities it has allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue permanently, according to a Tuesday letter it sent to the agency. Specifically, AHA wants hospitals to permanently be allowed to bill and get reimbursed for certain Medicare services provided virtually. It wants CMS to expand […]
Like providers, patients and families are adapting to rising use of telehealth in hospice care during the COVID-19 pandemic, as apparent plans to make temporary regulatory flexibilities permanent start to move forward. If telehealth remains a growing priority among hospices, gauging patient and family satisfaction with those services will be critical, particularly as they prepare to […]
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is disbursing more then $22 million in grants to several projects that will analyze how telehealth has been and could be used to improve COVID-19 care and services. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is issuing more than $22 million in grants to several projects that asses how telehealth has […]
Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door to widespread adoption of remote health care. “Telehealth has become the silver lining of the pandemic,” Matsui said at The Hill’s “COVID-19: The Way Forward” event. The California Democrat, who sits on health and technology subcommittees as a member of the House Energy […]
efore the COVID-19 pandemic, patient adoption of telehealth was viewed as one of the biggest challenges to widespread deployment. Now, patient and provider use of telehealth has skyrocketed, reaching levels industry experts couldn’t have projected. As the industry presses forward, it has a critical opportunity to build on this momentum and further expand consumer adoption of […]
Eight in ten large employers see virtual care and telehealth solutions as playing a significant role in healthcare delivery. Employers are emphasizing virtual care and telehealth in their healthcare benefit and care delivery strategies during the coronavirus pandemic, a recent survey by the Business Group on Health revealed. The organization conducted an online survey of 122 […]
Telehealth services will continue to grow in need and urgency even after the COVID-19 pandemic, so it is important that states update their existing laws, according to Peter Kowey, MD, and Thomas Martin, PhD. In an Aug. 15 op-ed published in Penn Live, Dr. Kowey, cardiovascular research chair at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, and Dr. […]
In the US, officials have opened up access to telehealth as part of efforts to control the spread of Covid-19. Natalie Healey speaks to Dr Nicol Turner Lee from the Brookings Institution Center for Technology Innovation about how remote consultations may change healthcare in the wake of the pandemic. The arrival of Covid-19 meant health systems around the world […]
With the coronavirus crisis, health systems catapulted the industry into the future by accelerating virtual care initiatives that will forever change the way healthcare is delivered in the U.S. As 2020 launched, healthcare executives had no way of knowing the havoc a novel virus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, would wreak on the healthcare […]
Experts point to areas of potential growth and improvement in the telehealth landscape. While telehealth has accelerated in popularity, it is far from reaching its zenith. Tremendous innovation is needed to help it reach its potential. BDO USA, part of BDO International, an accounting network, published the 2020 Healthcare Digital Transformation Survey earlier this year. HealthLeaders spoke with […]
The novel coronavirus (nCV) pandemic represents an unprecedented challenge to our health care system. Yet as a physician (Bruggeman) and U.S. senator/physician (Cassidy), we know that it is often times of challenge that bring out the most innovation as our health care system adapts to changing conditions to ensure that patients receive the care that […]
US Rep. Ann Wagner’s Telehealth Act pulls together nine telehealth bills introduced over the past year – all by Republicans – in a bid to give lawmakers one overarching piece of connected health legislation A Missouri Congresswoman has introduced a telehealth bill that combines nine other connected health bills into one piece of legislation. The […]
More than half of nurse practitioners said expanding scope of practice has been instrumental in fulfilling patient access to care demands. Relaxed scope of practice restrictions and models enabling expanded telehealth use have been instrumental in helping nurse practitioners meet patient access to care needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from the American […]
Covid-19 has transformed the traditional doctor’s office visit as we know it, moving it away from physical offices by adding online connections. That doesn’t mean virtual care is the sole future of health care. Instead, I hope it will become part of a new balance that embraces the potential of anywhere care. To get there, the United […]