Telehealth

The provider is integrating translation technology to successfully communicate with its many monolingual Chinese patients to gain further efficiencies.

Final rule expands Medicare telehealth services and increases pay for office visits, but cuts emergency physician payment.

The National Governors Association released a white paper this week examining state policies around telehealth and outlining key considerations for governors to assess the potential implications of said policies going forward.

Using FCC funding, the agency has transformed its telemedicine offering – and has since seen decreases in no-show rates for individual counseling and evaluation and management appointments.

Building off its Hospital Without Walls initiative, it's offering new flexibilities around telehealth and remote patient monitoring as the country enters "a new level of crisis response," said CMS Administrator Seema Verma.

Introduced by Rep. Ted Yoho, the bipartisan legislation would make funding from the Bureau of Health Workforce conditional on adopting the compact within three years.

The American Telemedicine Association said the newly released final rules move the healthcare industry closer to a value-based care model.

Remote patient monitoring ecosystems should not be treated in the same way as traditional endpoints, say cybersecurity experts.

Abdulaziz Alkhlaif, CIO of Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Mishari Hospital, discusses data transformation, artificial intelligence and the next generation of patient portals in Saudi Arabia.

A recently published JAMIA paper argues that design, implementation and policy considerations must be taken into account when developing virtual care technology.