Telehealth
AHA Expresses Support for the Health Care Broadband Expansion During COVID-19 Act, which proposes improvements to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rural Health Care Program.
The AHA responded to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services request for information by offering solutions for improving maternal and child health in rural communities.
AHA urged the Federal Communications Commission to grant expedited approval to its request that the agency extend the COVID-19 Telehealth Program to all hospitals and other direct patient care facilities, regardless of their size, location, or for-profit or not-for-profit status.
Dear Chairman Pai:
A panel of 4 experts discussed federal policy emerging from Congress and the Administration under COVID-19 focusing on rural health priorities and took questions from the audience. They reviewed emergency funding, Medicare and Medicaid payment improvements, telehealth, regulatory relief, 340B drug…
Advances in mobile health (mHealth), respectively Io THealth, are likely to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare.
Although telehealth systems may improve the quality of healthcare, the digitalization of health records, the collection, evaluation and provisioning of patient data,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released a number of new waivers related to COVID-19.
Health experts agree that telemedicine’s ability to bring virtual expertise to bedsides everywhere is a vital tool for fighting COVID-19.
COVID-19 cases around the country are increasing daily. While hospitals and health care workers are trying their best to treat those positive cases, they are also exploring telehealth and virtual care to prevent overcrowding hospitals and containing the spread of coronavirus.