By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | February 6, 2019 The American Hospital Association is calling on the federal government to boost telehealth and telemedicine opportunities – including better reimbursement, financial support for new technology and improved access to broadband – for the nation’s struggling rural hospitals. “Rural hospitals are not [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | February 1, 2019 The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference and exhibition, taking place Feb. 11-15 in Orlando, includes several sessions focusing on telehealth, digital health and remote patient monitoring. Telehealth and mHealth will play a part in many of the education [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | January 25, 2019 Telehealth will only succeed in the US if it becomes interoperable. That was the main takeaway from an American Telemedicine Association webinar this week, the opening salvo in a long-term campaign by the organization to promote scalability and sustainability by getting [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | January 23, 2018 A state-by-state analysis of telehealth and telemedicine laws and guidelines for physical and occupational therapists finds that few states are setting the same rules - or even using the same terminology. A new analysis of state telemedicine and telehealth guidelines for [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | January 28, 2018 CMS is updating its Value-Based Insurance Design model of care to allow telehealth to replace certain in-person medical visits in Medicare Advantage plans. Healthcare providers treating patients on Medicare Advantage plans may soon be able to use telehealth in place of [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | January 14, 2019 The American Medical Association has found that physician practices aren't using telehealth or telemedicine in large numbers, often because they're having problems paying for the new technology. Telemedicine and telehealth may be the norm rather than the exception in hospitals and [...]
