Telehealth

The House bill, introduced last week, would eliminate most geographic and originating site restrictions on the use of telehealth in Medicare, a broadly popular provision.

Telehealth introduces a new approach to shared clinical decision making, facilitates trusted cooperation and patient engagement. For Siemens Healthineers, the COVID-19 pandemic sheds new light on digital solutions in value-based healthcare.

Defense Health Agency will use its tools to help with the delivery of tele-critical care and remote patient monitoring for service members deployed worldwide.

The healthcare organization is using a $630,000 FCC award to get telemedicine into the home, including with remote patient-monitoring devices.

Among the takeaways at this week's Telehealth Innovation Forum: Those hoping for long-term state licensure waivers across the board may be in for disappointment.

Vendor members, including Cisco, doc.ai, Geometer, IBM, NearForm, Tencent and VMware, will work together to advance global projects focused on COVID-19 and population health.

Doctors were not able to transfer patient master data via the system for eight weeks.

Researchers say remote consultations could reduce the number of cancelled appointments and no shows.

Dr. Michael Zaroukian, VP, CMIO and CTO of Sparrow Health, says the health system had the infrastructure in place to be first in line to do virtual care when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

The COVID-19 global crisis has undoubtedly brought about huge changes in healthcare systems all over the world.