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Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. So what does this mean for patients and providers moving forward? Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman more»

Telehealth advocates are petitioning lawmakers to boost the budget for the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers (TRCs), noting they’ve seen an 800 percent increase in business during the pandemic. “Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people that TRCs serve had been multiplying exponentially due to increased national more»

Healthcare providers who focus on substance abuse and addiction recovery services are learning to use telehealth to improve access to care during a pandemic. Many are finding advantages to virtual care that they hadn’t expected. At the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB), providers in the UAB Medicine Addiction Recovery Program turned to Zoom more»

Several organizations are making an extra effort to lobby for expanded telehealth coverage for rural healthcare providers beyond the pandemic. While telehealth advocates have been lobbying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to make permanent a number of rules enacted during the pandemic to improve access and coverage, they’re putting more»

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. It's very clear to one and all that the pandemic has truly brought telemedicine into the mainstream. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. And Americans, as the more»

Telehealth advocates are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to amend the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule to permanently extend emergency measures on telehealth access and coverage that were enacted to deal with the pandemic. The American Telemedicine Association, American Medical Association, Alliance for Connected Care, Health more»

Despite having a high need for telehealth use, rural hospitals see a significant lack of emergency department telehealth services due to telehealth reimbursement barriers and low patient volumes, according to a JAMA Health Forum report. Many patients who seek care at small, rural emergency departments are frequently referred to urban health systems to more»

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a policy statement on telehealth that calls for, among other things, payment parity and more efforts to address the social determinants of health. “All children and adolescents deserve access to quality healthcare regardless of their race/ethnicity, health conditions, financial resources, or geographic more»