Virtual Reality: A major healthcare influencer
Virtual reality (VR) is mostly seen as the domain of the gaming industry. The increasing penetration of connected devices in the healthcare sector, increased investment, and the growing need to reduce the healthcare cost are the major drivers of virtual reality in the healthcare market.
4 Best Practices to Foster Virtual Care Transformation for Providers
Telehealth’s meteoric rise began just as the pandemic took off, and all indications suggest it’s here to stay. States that were once unwilling to reimburse for virtual visits are now onboard. Some have even passed parity legislation requiring insurers to reimburse equally for in-person visits and virtual visits.
How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes
By Bill Siwicki In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient’s response to a prescribed […]
What will the next year look like for telehealth? ‘Well above pre-pandemic levels’
We spoke with a telemedicine expert to get a feel for where virtual care technology goes from here, and how near-term changes in healthcare might impact the ways it’s deployed.
Virtual Healthcare Is The Future – If Organizations Can Clear These Hurdles
Covid-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps.
How physicians can protect themselves from litigation risk from virtual care
With virtual care on the rise, physicians need to understand the risks when caring for patients.
Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more cities
It will soon offer the “full package” of hybrid virtual/in-person care in Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas and Boston, Insider reports, with more expansion to follow in 2022.
‘This genie is out of the bottle’: Why virtual care is here to stay
At a conference examining the future for virtual care, experts said more flexible care models will persist beyond the crisis conditions that drove their use.
To Avoid Falling Off the Telehealth Cliff, Education Needs to be a Priority
The resulting spike in telehealth use exceeded expectations, with an 11,718% increase in remote Medicare visits between March and April 2020.
Contributed: Patients deserve virtual care that better integrates, and doesn’t compete with, in-person care
There is a growing need for care access in the U.S., but telehealth could help.