The State of Virtual Care in MENA
COVID-19 led to an emergence of healthcare innovations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which has had to reimagine its healthcare delivery system as the pandemic has exposed many weaknesses in its delivery model, creating opportunities for better healthcare delivery with virtual care.
VA Looks to Expand Its Use of 5G and AR to Help Doctors and Patients
The Department of Veterans Affairs is working to deploy a new 5G-enabled augmented reality surgical navigation system.
3 Considerations to Bolster Virtual Care Services for Better Business Outcomes
Here’s how virtual care can help midsized healthcare systems improve margins and minimize disruptions.
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.
Disengaged and Disconnected: Why Most Remote Monitoring Programs Underperform
Many healthcare organizations are learning that creating an effective, scalable remote monitoring program is not easy. Most engage only about half of eligible patients. When patients do engage, providers struggle to keep them connected, find actionable insights in the data, and achieve optimal reimbursement.
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.