In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare’s physician fee schedule covered a limited set of…
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Behavioral health clinic uses telehealth to expand its reach to vulnerable patients
Bridge Counseling Associates is a non-profit agency and certified community behavioral health clinic based in Las Vegas – in Clark County, Nevada, the southernmost county in the state, which is the seventh largest by land size. THE PROBLEM In order…
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Telehealth after dark: health systems can relieve clinician workload through nighttime virtual care
Smaller critical care hospitals may not have the patient volume to justify having a full-time physician for the night hours. This, said panelists during a recent HIMSS20 Digital presentation, can mean facilities leverage their daytime doctors for the job –…
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Tech optimization: Getting the most out of telehealth
With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from…
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Mount Sinai, Omron partner to offer at-home hypertension care
Mount Sinai Health System on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Omron that will offer patients the remote-technology company’s VitalSight home blood pressure-monitoring tool. Dr. Rob Fields, chief medical officer for population health at Mount Sinai, is leading the effort…
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How wearable tech can enable seamless RPM during COVID-19
At least 2.7 million people in the United States have atrial fibrillation, or an irregular heartbeat sometimes known as AFib. According to the American Heart Association, the risk for strokes among people with untreated AFib is five times as high…
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The successes – and pitfalls – of using telehealth for home-based primary care
Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, so reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful…
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Telehealth: ATA president says 'we have a lot more work to do'
“Telehealth is now a household world,” said American Telemedicine Association President Dr. Joe Kvedar during his keynote address Monday, the first day of the virtual ATA2020 conference. For the past 25 years, Kvedar said he’s been explaining to people what…
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COVID-19 has accelerated adoption of non-contact patient monitoring technology, says Frost & Sullivan analysis
Contactless monitoring systems and smartphone health applications are playing a vital role in the war against COVID-19, a report has found. According to the analysis by Frost & Sullivan, non-contact patient monitoring technologies are gravitating toward the use of video,…
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How athenahealth’s EHR FaceTime feature is helping a solo practice during COVID-19
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, Dr. Mamdouh Riad, a solo practitioner in Hyannis, Massachusetts, began to take notice that he would not be able to see patients in the office as usual and had many patients…
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