Telehealth

Telehealth adoption under COVID-19 has provided a blueprint for wider implementation across ERs and other healthcare venues.

CMS will now pay for certain neurostimulator analysis and programming services and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services.

Telehealth Connection TV: The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Silvia Perez-Protto discusses how telehealth can be used to help with advance planning for end-of-life care.

Liz Ashall-Payne, founder and CEO of ORCHA, says telehealth has clearly been adopted widely during COVID-19, but digital therapeutics, diagnostics and remote patient monitoring are predicted to play a more significant role moving forward.

In this episode of Telehealth Connection TV, Howard University College of Medicine's Michael Crawford explains early findings from the 1867 Health Innovations Project about virtual care and telemedicine.

Marianne Larsson, director of new industries and innovation at Innovation Skåne, says digital tools have been widely adopted across the globe during COVID-19, with remote monitoring for chronic care being popular in the Nordics.

New technologies also benefit providers as they look to retain service line revenues by offering remote care.

Patient satisfaction was high even before the pandemic, and anesthesiologists say 50% of visits could be virtual.

This week's top stories include a Universal Health Services cyberattack forcing the shutdown of user access to IT applications and Anthem reaching a $39.5 million settlement in a 2015 attack.

In total, hundreds were charged in $6 billion fraud takedown related to telehealth and substance abuse treatment facilities.