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
The Permanente Journal: Benefits and Challenges of Remote Patient Monitoring as Perceived by Health Care Practitioners: A Systematic Review
The Permanente Journal: Benefits and Challenges of Remote Patient Monitoring as Perceived by Health Care Practitioners: A Systematic Review Remote patient monitoring (RPM), or telemonitoring, offers ways for health care practitioners to gather real-time information on the physiological conditions of patients. As telemedicine, and thus telemonitoring, is becoming increasingly relevant in today’s society, understanding the practitioners’ opinions is crucial. This systematic review evaluates the perspectives and experiences of health care practitioners with telemonitoring technologies. The review found common benefits included continuous monitoring of patients to provide prompt care, improvement of patient self-care, efficient communication, increased patient confidence, visualization of health [...]
Kaiser Permanente: Most Telehealth Users Are Interested in Using It Again
Kaiser Permanente: Most Telehealth Users Are Interested in Using It Again A survey of 1,000 Kaiser Permanente Northern California patients who used a phone or video visit to see their primary care doctor in 2020 found that most were satisfied with their visit, and two-thirds are interested in using telemedicine again. The survey, published in the journal Medical Care, results suggest that once patients tried a phone or video visit, and found it useful or valuable, they would use it again for convenience. Most (85 percent) of respondents who had a recent video or telephone visit said the visit addressed their health [...]
Connected Care Updates – September 18
This update includes: Alliance and others present to DEA Alliance Submits Comments on PFS Senators Express Concerns Over DEA's Proposed Rule and notable research and news developments
Alliance Highlights the Importance of a Special Registration to Allow Continuity of Care for Patients
The Alliance for Connected Care appreciated the opportunity to testify for the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) listening session on prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine on September 12, 2023. We appreciate the DEA’s quick response during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) to allow prescribing via telemedicine. This was also a hugely meaningful expansion of access for Americans who had other barriers to accessing care. These include individuals who are frail, homebound or lack transportation, who live in areas with provider shortages, people of all kinds whose caregiving responsibilities serve as a barrier to care. We strongly support the development and [...]
Vermont Department of Health: Suicide Data-Linkage Project
Vermont Department of Health: Suicide Data-Linkage Project The Vermont Department of Health released a report, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which documented the statistics and put forward recommendations for trying to reduce the upward trend of suicide in Vermont. About 76 percent had health insurance and had seen a medical professional within a year of death (35 percent had been to an emergency room within a year of death) — most within a few months of passing. Within a year of death, 17 percent of people who died interacted with emergency medical services. The [...]