COVID-19: Telehealth and Virtual Care
Digital health funding in Q3 surpassed the record-setting second quarter this year and totaled $9.4 billion, the venture capital firm Rock Health reports. The sector鈥檚 influx of capital is being fueled in large part by rising consumer demand for access to remote care and health care providers鈥欌
Some health insurance reimbursement changes that helped fuel virtual care鈥檚 rapid rise during the early months of the pandemic are being eliminated. Health insurance giants UnitedHealthcare and Anthem are revising their telehealth reimbursement rules in ways that will increase patients鈥 out-of-鈥
A recent report, 鈥淛ourney Toward the Next Normal,鈥 from the Providence Digital Innovation Group provides some answers and examines the role that technology and digital health will play in achieving this transformation.
The pandemic has fueled a huge spike in telehealth services this year and the growth is just beginning, according to the 2020 State of Telemedicine Report from Doximity, the nation鈥檚 largest physician network.
Strategy and innovation leaders from hospitals and health systems across the country recently came together to share lessons learned and plans for the future as the field moves from response through recovery and on to rebuilding. The virtual 鈥淣avigating a New Reality鈥 program Sept. 14-16 from the鈥
In this podcast, Rebecca Chickey, senior director of field engagement, behavioral health services of the AHA is speaking with Martha Whitecotton, senior vice president of Behavioral Health Services at Atrium Health in Charlotte North Carolina, about using telehealth visits to provide behavioral鈥
Letter from AHA to President Donald Trump urging additional support for rural hospitals and health systems.
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Virtual Care Expands鈥
This letter to President Trump offers recommendations for promoting and expanding patients鈥 telehealth access.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Americans to rapidly and without warning pivot to telehealth at levels exponentially higher than before the pandemic. So, what鈥檚 next?