Leveraging Technology
A new AHA TrendWatch report highlights the many challenges to realizing the promise of telehealth for hospitals, health systems and their communities.
The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet held a hearing today on “Advancing Telehealth Through Connectivity.” Witnesses all agreed that telehealth is helping to lower costs and improve outcomes for patients with limited access to medical…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services April 10 released a proposed rule modifying the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for 2015 through 2017.
The AHA today expressed concern that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s “roadmap” to achieve nationwide interoperability “is not sufficiently grounded in an assessment of present realities or focused enough on the steps that will enable public and private…
CMS Releases Proposed Rule for Stage 3 of "Meaningful Use' Of EHRs
Legislation to revamp Medicare’s telehealth legislation should address several statutory restrictions that stand in the way of modernizing coverage and payment for telehealth services, the AHA last week told a congressional working group that recently circulated a draft proposal.
In a Jan.…