Healthcare providers are scrambling to keep up with the demand for telehealth services as the Coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the nation. Many are seeing unexpected benefits in the shift to...
The American Medical Association has released a guide to help providers get paid for their telehealth services during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The new document outlines 11 different...
Florida’s largest medical association is taking the state to task for not mandating telehealth payment parity during the Coronavirus pandemic.
In a letter to State Insurance Commissioner David...
Doctors in 35 states and the District of Columbia can now use telehealth to treat patients in other states, as part of the massive national effort to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic.
Officials in...
Scripps researchers are launching a new study to measure the value of mHealth wearables in detecting the emergence of viral outbreaks like the Coronavirus.
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Humana is expanding its telehealth portfolio to help members access connected health services during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Kentucky-based payer, serving more than 13 million people, announced...
The Health and Human Services Department is releasing $100 million in federal funds to more than 1,000 health centers to help them expand telehealth programs to help deal with the Coronavirus...
More than 2,000 care providers in San Francisco are using mHealth wearables to monitor their temperature in a program designed to identify people who’ve been infected by the Coronavirus as...
A tiny community of about 5,000 in Maryland is ground zero for an ambitious telehealth project aimed at using smart community concepts to monitor and manage the Coronavirus pandemic.
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As healthcare providers embrace new telehealth and mHealth services to address the Coronavirus pandemic, they should remember one thing: Capture and store all the data.
Federal and state agencies are...
A pair of Senators have announced a new bill aimed at funding senior living centers to improve access to telehealth and mHealth during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Introduced late last week,...
With isolation and separation at the top of the to-do list, federal regulators are looking to make it easier for care providers to use telehealth and mHealth to treat patients. That includes removing...
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is expanding telehealth coverage for its members, thus improving access to care for roughly one out of every three Americans.
The national network of 36...
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have so far amended existing laws or issued new declarations to expand the use of telehealth and mHealth tool during the Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
Federal officials are relaxing broadband rules to enable hospitals and health systems to work with Internet service providers to improve connectivity for telehealth and mHealth programs.
The Federal...
Federal officials have announced that they are allowing healthcare providers to practice across state lines – a move that eliminates, at least temporarily, a key barrier to the continued adoption...
Telemedicine has found yet another key purpose during the coronavirus public health emergency: the prescribing of controlled substances, such as opioids.
Per new clarification from the US Department...
The White House’s decision to expand telehealth services under Medicare to curb the spread of coronavirus has met with widespread praise — and a call for further action.
The American...
The Trump Administration recently announced the expansion of telehealth services in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus. Providers will now be reimbursed for virtual care at the same rate they...
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