17
Apr
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: American Telemedicine Association (ATA), costs of care, e-consults, health systems and telemedicine, healthcare systems, home telehealthcare, hospital systems, Mayo Clinic, Mercy Health Systems, mergers and acquisitions, physicians and technology use, specialty care and telemedicine, virtual care
By Jon Linkous There has been increasing attention lately to the rise of “Big Med.” Coined by Atul Gawande, MD at Brigham & Women’s Harvard teaching hospital, in the August 2012 edition of The New Yorker (link), the term refers to the accelerating instances of mergers, acquisitions and affiliations that are taking place throughout healthcare. […]
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10
Apr
by Liz Seegert Having spent most of his career in and around the Washington, DC bureaucracy, Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), has cut through his share of red tape and senseless regulations. This month’s reshuffling of federal Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, however, which disqualified 97 counties from Medicare telemedicine reimbursement, […]
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