Telehealth
For both primary and specialty care, telehealth is more frequently coded with a lower level-of-service billing code, Epic Research says.
With the expiration of the public health emergency ending waivers and flexibilities, providers are looking for answers, says Dr. Robert Murry, chief medical officer of NextGen Healthcare.
Improving home care for cardiac patients can help control preventable admissions – and the $25 billion a year price tag – says Dr. Alan Spiro, president and CMO of Laguna Health.
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While AI can generate content there's no good way yet to vet it, says Freddie Feldman, director of voice and conversational interfaces at Wolters Kluwer.
Hospitals have to think creativity and differently because staffing shortages aren't going away, says Wendy Deibert, Caregility's vice president of Clinical Solutions.
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Digital therapeutic app EndeavorRx improves attention function in children ages 8-12, says Scott Kollins, chief medical officer at Akili Interactive.
It's important to get data from remote patient monitoring and telemedicine in front of the physician, says Dr. Laura Purdy, a physician licensed in all 50 states, a telemedicine and digital health expert.
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In next three to five years 30-40% of patients will move from hospital to home, says Biofouormis CEO and founder Kuldeep Singh Rajput.
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Virtualists can handle the three Rs that take up 50% of a physician’s time: routine, repeatable and rules-based care, says Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare.
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Medicare, through CPT code development, sets the lead for how digital health gets paid, says Brian Scarpelli, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative.