Telehealth
The Department of Health and Human Services’ revised “bulletin” for HIPAA covered entities and business associates using online tracking technologies only confirms that the original bulletin was “substantively and procedurally unlawful,” AHA April 11 told a federal court hearing its challenge to a…
In a statement submitted April 10 to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health for a hearing on legislative proposals to support patient access to telehealth services, AHA voiced support for certain proposals that would extend critical telehealth flexibilities set to expire this year,…
Statementof theAmerican Hospital Associationfor theCommittee on Energy and CommerceSubcommittee on Healthof theU.S. House of Representatives“Legislative Proposals to Support Patient Access to Telehealth Services”April 10, 2024
The AHA voices support of the Telehealth Modernization Act (H.R. 7623).
The AHA and Concord Health Partners have compiled this collection of resources to provide more information about innovative solutions to key issues.
- Behavioral Health Care Delivery
- CRM
- Telehealth
- Cybersecurity
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Advancing Best Practices for Hospitals & Health Systems
- Emergency Departments (EDs)
- Primary Care
- Post-Acute Care
- COVID-19: Telehealth and Virtual Care
- Customer Experience
- Workforce
- Impact of Technology on the Workforce
AHA again urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services March 20 to permanently allow telehealth providers to administer services from their homes without listing their home address on Medicare enrollment and claims forms, which would pose privacy and safety risks, add unnecessary…
AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to remove the requirement that telehealth providers list their home address on enrollment and claims forms when performing services from their homes.
The virtual care platform Wheel recently made news by saying it would add mental health provider Talkspace, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company and the data-sharing program Health Gorilla into its integrated health care ecosystem this year.
AHA March 12 shared with the House Ways and Means Committee how telehealth and hospital-at-home (H@H) programs have expanded access to care for patients in their homes and the need for these programs to continue.
AHA statement before the House Committee on Ways and Means regarding “Enhancing Access to Care at Home in Rural and Underserved Communities."