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Urgency-driven innovation in healthcare

Healthcare It News

The healthcare industry continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with innovation and grit. Many organizations pivoted to allow nonessential workers to work remotely. They erected field hospitals in parking lots and converted nonclinical spaces into auxiliary ICUs to provide care to sick patients.

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How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

Healthcare It News

are facing an increasing healthcare crisis due to shortages in healthcare providers and facilities, especially as the nursing shortage continues throughout the country. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings? What are some trends in rural healthcare that are pushing RPM one way or the other?

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Telepsychiatry will continue to grow – and become the house call of yesteryear

Healthcare It News

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. You contend telepsychiatry will continue to grow because it enables access to mental healthcare – which is a big challenge today. You say payers and patients will more greatly embrace telepsychiatry as a form of healthcare delivery.

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Modern Healthcare Delivery – The Difference Between Digital Therapeutics and Telehealth

GoMoHealth

This is certainly true in our personal lives, as we have turned to and become reliant on FaceTime, Zoom and other e-connections to stay connected to family and friends, and even more so when it comes to healthcare management, with the COVID-19 pandemic forever impacting the way healthcare is delivered. What Is Telehealth?

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FCC Awards Additional $42.7M in Round 2 of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

HIT Consultant

The FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program supports the efforts of health care providers to continue serving their patients by providing reimbursement for telecommunications services, information services, and connected devices necessary to enable telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Round 2 is a $249.95 – Community Health Centers, Inc.,

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States Focus on Behavioral Health as They Consider the Future of Telehealth

NASHP

Toward the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, state and federal officials worked quickly to enable the utilization of telemedicine across healthcare services. To entice providers to deliver remote care, states mandated or encouraged parity in reimbursement and/or cost-sharing between in-person and telehealth services.