Telehealth Expansion Proposed in Bipartisan Senate Bill
Earlier this month, a bipartisan group, led by U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), introduced a bill in the Senate focused on promoting cost savings and quality care under the Medicare …
Senators Introduce Telehealth Bill for Underserved Areas
Two U.S. Senators, Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), have introduced a bill that would aim to improve healthcare in underserved, rural areas through the expanded use of telehealth. …
Experts Discuss 4 Major Barriers to Telehealth Adoption
While technology has reached a level where high-quality virtual consultations with physicians can take place, policy issues have slowed the expansion of telehealth practices in the U.S. Consulting with a …
Telehealth Makes Gains Out West
At the American Telemedicine Association’s annual meeting in Baltimore in May, the buzz was about health systems increasingly incorporating virtual visits into their operations and how mobile technologies could play …
Telehealth groups to Burwell: Ease these 5 burdens
No sooner did Sylvia Matthews Burwell take over as Health and Human Services Secretary than a collection of telemedicine and mHealth associations asked her to eliminate some of the roadblocks …
TIA Encourages HHS to Examine Changes to Achieve Full Potential of Telehealth
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, joined a number of stakeholders in urging newly-confirmed Secretary of the Department of …
The doctor will see you now – Virtually
Advances in telehealth are changing the way health care is delivered in the Cincinnati area. In Springdale, robots equipped to give quick medical checkups could be the latest technology used …
ACOs, digital health companies petition new HHS secretary to remove telehealth restrictions
After efforts to remove restrictions from CMS coverage of telehealth through legislative channels have stalled, telehealth stakeholders have sent a barrage of open letters to incoming US Secretary of Health …