by Audrey Kinsella The title of this year’s 10th Annual Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium says it all about what everyone is saying should be emphasized in healthcare delivery today. “Collaborations and Innovations to Engage Patients and Elevate Care” will be held in Boston, Oct. 24-25 and will offer a range of cross-disciplinary speakers, […]
Analysis by Audrey Kinsella Headlines like these are becoming increasingly, alarmingly, common: “Report: Telemedicine Increases Death Rate” [in the UK’s Online Pharma Times, 6/5/13] “Unintended Consequences: How Telehealth Can Fail to Manage Chronic Diseases” [University of Texas blog post by a nursing school professor] Both pieces imply that telehealthcare can actually worsen a patient’s condition. […]
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, […]
Representative Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill (HR 6719) that fixes the two existing barriers to the use of telemedicine in federal health programs: reimbursement and physician licensure. By eliminating arbitrary coverage restrictions and simplifying licensure requirements within federal health programs, the bill would extend the benefits of telehealth and mHealth to nearly […]
One of the most frequently cited obstacles to implementing a program of remote patient monitoring in a home health care agency is the price of in-home monitoring devices. Coupled with minimum purchase requirements imposed by most home telehealth vendors, cost of entry becomes prohibitive for the majority of home care providers, both those who […]
by Liz Seegert Last week, staff writer Liz Seegert examined the Republican Party Platform in terms of its impact on home health care. (http://homecaretechreport.com/article.asp?id=1589) In part two, she takes the same close look at the just-released Democratic platform. It was a bit of a surprise that home health care and home health technology are not […]
