Survey: E-prescribing systems on the rise in nursing homes
Aug 10, 2011
Most facility operators responding to a new survey say that their next technology-related purchase will be an e-prescribing system. That’s according to findings relayed in yesterday’s McKnight’s...
LeadingAge releases telehealth resources
Oct 22, 2013
LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) has released a Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Selection Tool and set of six case studies on the topic. The online selection...
LeadingAge CAST releases new telehealth resources
Sep 24, 2013
LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technologies has released a white paper and selection matrix for telehealth.
Long-term care, physician practices and other health networks may be examining...
Top expert will highlight Expo
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 09, 2018
Providers have long struggled with offering telehealth due to reimbursement limitations. But the landscape is changing.
Telehealth gaining traction as healthcare tool
Jan 02, 2013
Until recently, telehealth was a subject few people knew about — and even fewer understood. But these days, the concept is quickly gaining traction in healthcare, according to several experts who spoke...
Rural provider hopes lifted: Medicare to pay for virtual doctor visits
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 16, 2018
Physicians can receive Medicare payments for using telecommunications such as audio or video with patients, according to new guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Watchdog says nearly one-third of CMS telehealth payments were improper
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 16, 2018
The growing drumbeat for greater use of telehealth in long-term care may have encountered a muffler.
It’s time you take care of you, and here is the place
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 08, 2018
Some people sit down at the beginning of each year and make relatively ambitious goals.