Telemedicine coverage laws often confusing to providers, experts say
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Oct 19, 2017
State telemedicine laws may leave healthcare providers in a state of billing confusion over what services are covered, some observers say.
Ask the Legal Expert about … telemedicine
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John Durso
Oct 06, 2017
What are your thoughts on the rising attention given to telemedicine? Are we more at risk, using clinicians miles away and viewing resident conditions and records off-site? What precautions or pre-conditions...
Telemedicine solution expands
Sep 27, 2016
UPMC Enterprises has started Curavi Health as a company providing a new telemedicine solution and physician care for nursing homes.
Telemonitoring savings are not significant, study finds
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Amy Novotney
Apr 06, 2015
Despite new research suggesting that a majority of U.S. adults – 56% – now embrace using a connected device at home to monitor health and share data with caregivers, telemedicine may not be...
Telemedicine too complicated for LTC? Don’t tell this guy
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John O'Connor
Feb 13, 2015
Isn’t it funny how something can’t be done until someone comes along and does it?
Expanding telemedicine definitions
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Elizabeth Newman
Nov 13, 2014
The quickest, and most dangerous, way to dismiss the concept of telemedicine in long-term care is to envision it as a physician or nurse sitting in front of a computer with an elderly resident on the other...
Medline Industries partners with Telemedicine Solutions
Oct 14, 2014
Medline Industries announced a partnership with Telemedicine Solutions and the WoundRounds wound management solution.
Expanding horizons to include telemedicine in skilled nursing facilities
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Viktoriya Friedman, MSPT
Jul 11, 2014
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, the author described how hospitals are using interactive video to give patients more access to medical care. So why not nursing homes?
Spacely Sprockets and the future of medical care
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 02, 2014
So does anyone remember the cartoon “The Jetsons”? You know, George and Jane, daughter Judy, son Elroy and, of course, the dog, Astro. It’s kind of fun to see how their 1960s and 1980s...
Telemedicine reduces nursing homes’ hospital readmissions if staff engagement is high, researchers...
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Tim Mullaney
Feb 04, 2014
Skilled nursing facilities that implement a telemedicine service and teach staff to use it could reduce their hospital readmissions, but current payment systems do not encourage this, according to a forthcoming...