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ATA hosts series this week on the value of virtual care

Healthcare It News

The American Telemedicine Association has gathered a number of speakers to share their expertise on integrating virtual care into healthcare delivery. WHY IT MATTERS. The virtual series that began Monday continues today with discussions on aging, home testing use cases and reimbursement and increasing equity in mental healthcare access.

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Vital Start Health Launches Virtual Reality-Enabled Telemedicine Platform for Maternal Mental Health

HIT Consultant

The platform has key partners including a well-known patient advocacy group and a maternal remote patient monitoring platform, Happy Mama by Reach. “Reach is elated to partner with Vital Start.

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Telehealth helps address many key chronic care management challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

How exactly can telemedicine help solve each of these challenges? By harnessing technology to bridge the gaps in access, telehealth empowers patients, mitigates healthcare disparities and fosters an inclusive and patient-centric healthcare system.

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Stuck in the Middle with You: Licensing Reforms for Cross-State Telehealth

Bill of Health

In June 2023, we gathered representatives from patient advocacy groups, leading cancer care centers, children’s hospitals, and academic medical centers to discuss potential, feasible avenues to reform. Congress appears to have little appetite to revolutionize the practice of medicine by creating federal licensure.

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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

Health Populi

In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S.

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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

It has led me to found Tapestry Health, a multispecialty medical practice that focuses on providing medical infrastructure in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as Project Patient Care, a patient advocacy organization based in Chicago, Illinois. References.

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Increasing Participation in Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Trials

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Increase accessibility To reduce socioeconomic and cost-based barriers, physicians and trial sponsors can aim to increase the accessibility of future clinical study designs through the use of travel plans and telemedicine solutions.