COVID-19: Telehealth and Virtual Care
When the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit, hospitals, health systems and their
affiliated physician practices became online caregivers almost overnight.
One legacy of our response to COVID-19 surely will be how it has accelerated the adoption of virtual care. It is one of the more encouraging developments during the losses of the pandemic.
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AHA Statement before the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, on The Future of Telehealth: COVID-19 is Changing the Delivery of Virtual Care.
AHA letter to Senators Tim Scott and Brian Schatz expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act (S.368).
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Recent research into telehealth adoption found that providers’ satisfaction was directly proportional to the amount of input they had in program design and rollout within their institutions. This speaks to the importance of engaging with physicians and others who provide virtual care services.
Digital health funding in Q3 surpassed the record-setting second quarter this year and totaled $9.4 billion, the venture capital firm Rock Health reports. The sector’s influx of capital is being fueled in large part by rising consumer demand for access to remote care and health care providers’…
Some health insurance reimbursement changes that helped fuel virtual care’s rapid rise during the early months of the pandemic are being eliminated. Health insurance giants UnitedHealthcare and Anthem are revising their telehealth reimbursement rules in ways that will increase patients’ out-of-…
A recent report, “Journey Toward the Next Normal,” from the Providence Digital Innovation Group provides some answers and examines the role that technology and digital health will play in achieving this transformation.