Our Members
The Alliance for Connected Care aims to:
Demonstrate the importance of Connected Care as a tool for improved quality and efficiency.
Build significant and high-level support for Connected Care among leaders in Congress and the Administration.
Enable more telehealth to support new models of care.
Lift geographic and site restrictions for telehealth in Medicare.
Establish a consensus-based, standardized definition of Connected Care to advance with policymakers.
Alliance News
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): Improving Access to Surgical Care: Safety, Efficacy, and Satisfaction With Postoperative Telehealth
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): Improving Access to Surgical Care: Safety, Efficacy, and Satisfaction With Postoperative Telehealth A quarter of US Veterans reside in rural communities and are significantly older than their urban counterparts. Providing timely access to care is especially important in this older, independent and medically complex cohort. Routine telehealth for low and high-complexity surgery could be of particular benefit to rural patients by reducing travel challenges, costs, improving scheduling flexibility and reinforcing independence. Findings from this study, once completed, could lead to standardization for telehealth follow-up after surgery.
Alliance for Connected Care Urges AMA to Ensure Coding for RPM and RTM Accurately Represents Clinical Utilization
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the American Medical Association's (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel in response to its February 2024 meeting agenda, which includes Tab 50 - Remote Monitoring. The public agenda seems to indicate major revisions to remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM). The Alliance is concerned that the revisions to RPM and RTM codes because we do not believe these changes would improve a clinician’s ability to manage care and we are concerned with downstream implications of this change – such as the potential exacerbation of concerns with appropriate utilization and [...]
JAMA Network: Nurse and Social Worker Palliative Telecare Team and Quality of Life in Patients With COPD, Heart Failure, or Interstitial Lung Disease
JAMA Network: Nurse and Social Worker Palliative Telecare Team and Quality of Life in Patients With COPD, Heart Failure, or Interstitial Lung Disease A study found receiving care from a palliative telecare team resulted in more improvements in quality of life than usual care among patients with COPD, interstitial lung disease or heart failure. In a single-blind, randomized trial of two Veterans Administration health care systems, researchers split the groups into patients that received palliative telecare from a nurse and social worker team (ADAPT intervention) and usual care (educational handout). Researchers found more improvement in COPD health status and [...]
American Journal of Managed Care: Characterizing Telehealth Use in the US: Analysis of the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey
American Journal of Managed Care: Characterizing Telehealth Use in the US: Analysis of the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey A study published in The American Journal of Managed Care aimed to evaluate patient motivations for using telehealth and patient characteristics associated with telehealth use in 2022. The most common motivation for using telehealth was if the respondent’s physician recommended or required the service (73.6 percent). Researchers noted that identifying patients’ motivations may help decision makes better understand the perceived value of telehealth among patients and may help policy makers and administrators create opportunities for increased patient choice around [...]
The Journal of Pediatrics: Impact of Telemedicine on Access to Care for Rural Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth
The Journal of Pediatrics: Impact of Telemedicine on Access to Care for Rural Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth A study conducted by researchers from University of Virginia, UVA Health, and the University of Southern California found that telehealth was associated with lower no-show rates for healthcare visits among transgender and gender-diverse youth in rural areas. The researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of EMR data from a clinic serving transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults. Overall, the no-show rate for the 17,928 patient encounters was 10.9 percent. However, telehealth visits had a no-show rate of only 5.4 percent. The study [...]