A Nationwide Telehealth Heart Failure Program: Can Remote Patient Monitoring and Guideline Directed Treatment Protocols Help Bridge the Gaps in Heart Failure Management?
Health Affairs: Many Clinicians Implement Digital Equity Strategies to Treat Opioid Use Disorder Maintaining access to care via telemedicine was critical for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study found that in March 2022, 77 percent of clinician respondents reported implementing digital equity strategies, such as audio-only telehealth, to [...]
This update includes: Call for RPM data Introduction of the Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act Telehealth Website Update on Medicaid.gov Questions Remain Around Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) Meeting as Groups Prepare and notable research and news developments
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Telemedicine Use CDC released a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on percentage of persons who used telemedicine during the past 12 months, by age group. The report found that in 2021, approximately one third (32.8 percent) of persons of [...]
The Alliance submitted a letter of support to Annette Cleveland, Chair of the Senate Health & Long Term Care Committee within the Washington State Legislature, for Senate Bill 5481 - Concerning the Uniform Telemedicine Act. The bill would adopt the Uniform Telemedicine Act in the State of Washington. The Uniform Telemedicine Act would provide the [...]
McKinsey & Co: Preparing Clinicians for the New Era of Telehealth According to a McKinsey & Co report, telehealth services have quickly become a popular and safe alternative to in-person appointments, with 46 percent of consumers using telehealth by May 2020 to replace canceled health care visits—up from 11 percent in 2019. In [...]
National Association for Behavioral Healthcare: Telehealth is Effectively Augmenting Traditional Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) Education and Research Foundation and Manatt released an issue brief that highlights how telehealth services effectively augment traditional partial hospitalization programs (PHP) and intensive outpatient programs (IOP). Results from the [...]
Plos One: Pre-Pandemic Geographic Access to Hospital-Based Telehealth for Cancer Care in the United States This report found that although telehealth is widely available throughout the United States, millions of Americans do not have access to telehealth oncology services. Study authors noted that previous research has shown people living in rural areas tend to have [...]
This update includes:Alliance Submits Comments on WH OSTP on Clinical TrialsCMS meeting on Remote Patient MonitoringAlliance Letter to CMS to Issue Interim Final RuleCBO Score of Telehealth Provisions Decreasedand notable research and news developments
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted comments in response to the request for information from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on clinical research infrastructure and emergency clinical trials . The Alliance specifically outlined licensure restrictions that present a barrier to clinical trial recruitment and diversity and present a [...]