Alliance for Connected Care

The Commonwealth Fund: States’ Actions to Expand Telemedicine Access During COVID-19 and Future Policy Considerations Abstract Issue: To encourage greater use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic, states took action to enhance private insurance coverage of telemedicine. As temporary orders and voluntary insurer efforts end, policymakers are considering how best to regulate telemedicine post-pandemic. Goal: To [...]

Telemedicine Effective at Care Retention Among Rural Patients Living With HIV Researchers have found that when put up against traditional, or face-to-face (F2F), care, telemedicine (TM) produced comparable results among persons living with HIV in rural Georgia, thereby presenting itself as a potential way to increase access to specialty HIV care for these individuals. Findings were recently [...]

A new report by Trilliant Health breaks down telehealth utilization rates and patient attitudes around receiving care in the home. Their findings were based on over 70 billion medical claims data representing 309 million patients across all 50 states, including private insurance and Medicare claims. They found that 80 percent of consumers say they would [...]

Encore Healthcare announced results from their new oxygen and nebulizer management Nexus TeleRespiratory Care model. Encore has used its over 20 million data points from chronic respiratory failure patients on home ventilation to build a predictive model that allows Home Medical Equipment (HME) providers to identify when patients need services before they end up in [...]

Maturing Virtual Care In Tribal Communities  Philips Healthcare and the eHealth Initiative and Foundation (eHI) released a report which addresses the digital health challenges faced by tribal communities, including existing data gaps, funding sources, and the digital divide. Although some 60-70 percent of health care services in tribal communities are telehealth visits, significant connectivity challenges exist in rural areas [...]