Connected Care Update – January 8 2025
JAMA Network: Interstate Telemedicine in the Courtroom – Response and Reply
JAMA Network: Interstate Telemedicine in the Courtroom – Response and Reply Barak Richman, a professor at the Duke Law School, published a viewpoint analysis in August urging for state medical boards to permanently adopt the pandemic flexibilities that supported interstate telemedicine. Charles Kels, senior attorney at the Department of Homeland Security, published a response, [...]
JAMA Network Open: National Telehealth Contingency Staffing Program and Primary Care Quality in the VHA
JAMA Network Open: National Telehealth Contingency Staffing Program and Primary Care Quality in the VHA The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) launched the Clinical Resource Hub (CRH), a national telehealth contingency staffing program, to address primary care staffing shortages and improve veteran access to primary care. The study found veterans receiving primary care services through [...]
Frontiers: Addressing Barriers to Equitable Telehealth for Older Adults
Frontiers: Addressing Barriers to Equitable Telehealth for Older Adults Aging is associated with the development of chronic conditions and multimorbidity, which led older adults to incur, on average, $5,277 in medical expenses in 2022. Telehealth is a particularly useful tool in helping manage many chronic conditions, particularly when it can be delivered at lower [...]
ASPE: Medicaid Behavioral Health Providers Delivering Most Behavioral Health Services via Telehealth
ASPE: Medicaid Behavioral Health Providers Delivering Most Behavioral Health Services via Telehealth ASPE released a study, which examined the extent to which Medicaid providers who deliver behavioral health services shifted their practices to mostly tele-behavioral health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study found that the proportion of providers who delivered more than 80% [...]