It is a pleasure to meet you all! My name is Cameron Hilt and I now serve as the new Program Director for the Upper Midwest Telehealth Resource Center. I look forward to connecting with you to answer any telehealth questions you have and continue the work of advancing telehealth in the Midwest. I had the privilege of working closely with Becky over the past year and I’m very thankful for her contributions and the foundation she has laid for the UMTRC over the past 10 years. I wanted to take the time to provide more information about myself so you all can get to know me better.
more»As you may already know, it is time for me to say goodbye to the UMTRC and the Indiana Rural Health Association (IRHA). As Alexander Graham Bell once said, “When one door closes, another opens”.
more»While the UMTRC staff was busy with all of the final details for hosting our 3rd Annual UMTRC Conference in South Bend, Indiana, CMS released a jam-packed proposal for their 2022 Physician Fee Schedule. There have been several great write-ups about the proposal already, and the UMTRC staff would like to share them with you!
more»Everyone at the UMTRC would like to extend our sincerest THANK YOU to everyone that attended the 3rd Annual UMTRC Telehealth Conference! We also want to congratulate our 2021 award recipients.
more»On April 20, 2021, Indiana's Governor Holcomb, signed into law SEA3 (Senate Enrolled Act), a telehealth bill. The bill cleans up some of the standards in previous Indiana laws.
Below are just some of the details of Indiana's latest telehealth updates.
*Changes the term 'telemedicine' to 'telehealth'.
*Expands the application of the telehealth statute to additional licensed practitioners instead of applying only to prescribers.
**List of providers: athletic trainer, chiropractor, dental hygienist, dentist, diabetes educator, dietitian, genetic counselor, physician, nurse, occupational therapist, behavioral health and human services professional, optometrist, pharmacist, physical therapist, physician assistant, podiatrist, psychologist, respiratory care practitioner, speech-language pathologist or audiologist.
So many things have changed with COVID and the global pandemic. It has been the elephant in the room that we have lived with for over a year now. During this past year, so many of us have had days where we felt down and depressed. While there are many efforts to remove the stigma about behavioral health issues, it is still not a truly open discussion yet among peers. Even though we ask people around us “How are you today?” the answer is rarely anything like “I had a great meeting with my therapist and we figured out that I needed a higher dose of my antidepressants.”
The year of 2020 was at best challenging. It separated us from friends, family, colleagues, and from those that we saw at social functions. It tested us in ways many of us have never been before. Many of us learned that we could do work remotely as well as we could in a cubical. We spent more time supporting our children in their studies, and less time in the gym. For so very many of us our lives didn’t look remotely like the life we’d led in 2019. Going to the grocery or the pharmacy was truly an outing “as needed only” basis. Our elected officials closed malls, schools, courthouses, and our beloved restaurants. We did more dishes in 2020 than we have done in the previous three years!
more»Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule on December 2, 2020, aimed at addressing any existing undue regulatory impact and burden of Stark Law. Specifically, exceptions to the physician self-referral law have been created for certain value-based compensation agreements between or among physicians, providers, and suppliers.
more»As we enter the twelfth month of the Public Health Emergency for COVID-19, we are seeing vaccines roll-out and are hopeful to be able to return to in-person events this summer. In the meantime, we would love for you to share your telehealth story with us so we can highlight your successes, learn from your struggles, and provide additional resources based off of your feedback.
more»The healthcare world got an early holiday present from CMS on December 1st when the 2021 Final Physician Fee Schedule hit the streets. There was a lot of information to unpack, and many organizations have written up summaries about it.
more»What a year this has been! While most of us probably can’t wait to say good-bye to 2020, one of the good things that has come from the COVID-19 pandemic is the policy changes for telehealth and the ubiquitous acceptance of it from providers all over the world. Here in the United States, the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers (NCTRCs) were here to have your back. Our origins began in 2006, with the inception of the Health Resources Services Administration’s Telehealth Resource Center Program, which is funded out of the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
more»If you live, work, or travel in a rural area of the United States, you’ve probably gotten stuck behind a slow-moving farm implement. They can be seen out and about every spring and fall like clockwork. Can you imagine what the person in the cab looks like? You probably envision faded blue jeans, work boots, and ball cap. Have you ever tried to imagine what their day looks like? Did they start before the sun was up? Are they grandparents or parents? Did their children see them at the dinner table yesterday? Did they crawl out of the tractor late last night and are they trying to finish up today? The list of questions goes on and on.
more»As we flip our calendar to October, the weather across the Midwest is getting cooler, and we are expecting our first frost any day. Also, as if 2020 hasn’t been a crazy enough year, in October we will have 2 full moons. The first was on October 1st, and the second one will be a full Hunter’s Moon on October 31st! The second full moon in any given month is called a Blue Moon. If you’re not familiar with the terms ‘harvest moon’, ‘hunter’s moon’, or ‘blue moon’, check out this article on the Farmer’s Almanac website.
more»Across the Midwest, many of my friends and neighbors are experiencing the abundance of fall harvest in their vegetable gardens and sharing the various canned vegetables, salsa, and home baked good with others.
more»All of these areas of the telehealth evidence base must be broadened and deepened in order to inform policy decisions that will lay the groundwork for a post-public-health-emergency world.
more»Thanks to the over 150 of you who joined us for our virtual UMTRC 2020 Conference on July 13-15th! It was truly a labor of love to bring our many speakers and topics to you. For those of you who registered for the conference, you will continue to have access to the slides and recordings within the EventMobi app through the end of August.
more»It’s so hard to believe that summer is nearing the halfway point for many students who normally return to their classrooms in August. While some schools have released their social distancing plans, many others have not. It seems likely that face masks will be required in most public areas throughout the remainder of the year.
more»May was a surreal month. Instead of attending graduation parties, and gorging on cake and junk food, many of us attended parades of cars with high school graduates and their families driving down main street like my high school did this year.
more»We have officially survived the month of April! For many of us, it has been the longest month of our lives as we try to balance working from home, teaching our children via e-learning while schools are shut down, taking care of our aging parents, and trying to keep our pantries stocked.
more»As we enter the month of April, many of us look for the cleansing showers that will result in nature coming back to life with green grass and a wild variety of flowers blooming and ushering us into May.
more»In the past month, the coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is now known, has changed the way we live our lives, not just in the United States, but all over the world. The academic history of pandemics is a fascinating topic, as seen in a recent article by Nicholas LePan, on the Visual Capitalist's website.
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Long gone are the days when doctors would travel around town calling upon their patients at home. But are they really? In a 2010 survey, 19% of American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) members were making a minimum of one house calls per week. How does that compare to virtual health care visits made by patients, who from the comfort of their own homes, connect with primary care physicians using secure videoconferencing? Deloitte’s 2018 survey found that of the 23% of consumers who have tried it, 77% of them reported a high level of satisfaction with their virtual health care visit. A fascinating business model, to say the least.
more»On September 1, 2019, the Upper Midwest Telehealth Resource Center begins its 9th year as a Telehealth Resource Center.
more»Thanks to everyone who helped make our 1st Annual Conference such a success!
more»Telehealth and its disruption of the healthcare delivery model is here to stay.
more»Is your door open, closed, or somewhere in between? Telehealth and Telemedicine can be intimidating, scary, exciting, and to some completely absurd. Some close the door, and think, absolutely not, we cannot see patients and communicate with other providers through a screen.
more»Inaugural Conference to be held July 23-24, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana
more»A brief recap of the 2018 Indiana Rural Health Association Annual Conference by UMTRC Director, Becky Sanders.
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