Telehealth

A virtual care CEO says telemedicine means more physicians in the mix, enabling them to delegate less-complex tasks. Health systems should then be able to reduce wait times with that newly expanded capacity.

A change in administration isn’t the only thing that promises an interesting year. Editors from Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews discuss what to look for in telehealth and RPM, and emerging policies in AI and cybersecurity.

As one telemedicine CEO looks to the year ahead, he predicts RPM will improve outcomes for congestive heart failure patients and help manage those on the wildly popular GLP-1 diabetes and weight loss medications.

Stripped out of the final bill is a provision to prevent the 2.8% Medicare pay cut to physicians.

Janice Reese, program manager of FAST (FHIR at Scale Task Force), says making patient access simpler is a key benefit, along with identity consent and security.

It will feature a 24/7 command centre, integrating the ICUs of small and medium hospitals.  

The hospital, primarily based on virtual care, will be built by an Australian company.

The bipartisan continuing resolution announced on Monday offers "big wins" for virtual care, and the American Telemedicine Association and other healthcare groups are pleased.

Conversations have only started in the past few years about what digital equity is and how it applies to telemedicine and virtual care. Here's what the Detroit-based health system has learned so far.

A health analytics company is partnering with pharma to allow patients to unify their health information across multiple providers. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the DTP platform analyzes medical records and makes recommendations.