A group of Congressmen wants to prod states into joining the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which aims to make it easier for providers to use telehealth to treat patients in other states.
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The Alliance for Connected Care wants to make it easier for health systems and hospitals to use telehealth to treat patients no matter where they live.
The organization is seeking support for...
The eHealth Initiative has unveiled recommendations for federal policy changes to help expand telehealth access and coverage during and beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
The 22-page report comes...
Radiologists and psychiatrists are most interested in telehealth jobs, according to a new report from Doximity, while anesthesiologists and surgeons are showing the least interest.
The 2020 State of...
Georgia’s governor has vetoed legislation that would have paved the way for audiologists and speech-language pathologists in the state to use telehealth to treat patients in other states.
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A new bill before Congress takes aim at one of the bigger barriers to telehealth expansion: interstate licensure.
Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) this week unveiled the Temporary...
A new bill before Congress aims to allow providers unfettered use of telehealth for six months after the end of the COVID-19 emergency.
Introduced this week by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Ted...
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has pushed telehealth and mHealth to center stage as healthcare providers of all sizes look to provide care on virtual platforms. But the emergency – and the...
Mississippi state officials have found that a loosening of the state’s telehealth regulations to address the Coronavirus pandemic caused more problems than it solved.
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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...
An Oklahoma legislator wants to make it easier for audiology and speech-language pathologists to use telehealth to treat patients in multiple states.
State Rep. Josh West last week introduced HB 2968,...
The American Medical Association has accepted the report of a committee calling for support the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact as a means of encouraging telehealth adoption.
The report, prepared...
Interstate medical licensure compacts, which enable healthcare providers to more easily apply for and receive permission to practice medicine in other states, have been touted as a means of expanding...
