Telehealth
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday finalized changes to the Medicare Advantage and prescription drug programs for contract year 2020.
Even though it accounts for only 2.6 percent of overall medical claims, Telehealth usage surged 53 percent between 2016 and 2017 and continues to grow rapidly. This rate of telehealth growth surpassed that of urgent care centers, retail clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and emergency departments…
Even as many hospitals and health care systems continue to evaluate whether to participate in risk-based reimbursement models, some health care startups are betting their futures on it.
The AHA today shared with House and Senate members of the Congressional Telehealth Caucus recommendations for improving and expanding access to telehealth.
The AHA and the National Quality Forum today released a guide to help hospitals and health systems working to deliver innovative, high-quality telebehavioral health services.
In another example of how hospitals and health systems can broaden the scope of their virtual care programs, Intermountain Healthcare is expanding its well-established Homecare & Hospice program to include home-based primary care and some traditional services.
After six years of development and supported with private-equity funding, OnMed, a health technology company, has launched a telemedicine kiosk that can dispense medications as the patient consults with a physician remotely. The HIPAA-compliant OnMed Station can be set up almost anywhere, according…
This how-to guide outline strategies, interventions, tools and resources for implementing telebehavioral health services, whether hospitals and health systems are starting a program or strengthening an existing one.
Virtual care has the potential to increase access, reduce costs and help patients make better decisions about their care as symptoms arise. Fulfilling these lofty goals may be a work in progress, but evolving telemedicine platforms are attempting to solve some of health care’s perplexing problems…