Center for Telehealth and E-Health Law

URAC and CTeL Launch New Partnership to Strengthen Virtual Care and Telehealth Outcomes

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

The partnership works to connect CTeLs members with URACs accreditation offerings, leading to better safety, security and outcomes for telehealth patients.

Key Points: 
  • The partnership works to connect CTeLs members with URACs accreditation offerings, leading to better safety, security and outcomes for telehealth patients.
  • The new partnership provides CTeL members with special discounted pricing for URAC Accreditation, including Telehealth Accreditation, as well as a discount for URAC-accredited organizations when they participate in CTeLs online learning program.
  • By partnering with CTeL, URAC is helping to highlight the importance of telehealth throughout the pandemic and afterwards, said Jeffrey Carr, URACs Vice President, Business Development.
  • We share with CTeL the belief that telehealth can help overcome challenges in health care, including access to care and importantly, barriers to receiving mental health care.

Growth of Telehealth Provider TimelyMD Continues with Strategic Hires

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

TimelyMD , the only full-service telehealth provider solely focused on higher education, has recently hired five transformative leaders to support its exponential growth at colleges and universities across the country as demand for telemedicine and teletherapy continues to skyrocket during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key Points: 
  • TimelyMD , the only full-service telehealth provider solely focused on higher education, has recently hired five transformative leaders to support its exponential growth at colleges and universities across the country as demand for telemedicine and teletherapy continues to skyrocket during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • She is a subject matter expert in telehealth, having created first-of-its-kind solutions focused on primary care, dermatology and behavioral health, while using data to show success.
  • Focused on improving the health of student populations, TimelyMD offers universities and colleges a comprehensive, custom program centered around telehealth.
  • TimelyMDs telehealth programs optimize clinic resources and support clinic staff in delivering quality care to the right students at the right times.

Telegenetics leader GeneMatters announces a significant technology expansion to further scale genetic services

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

GeneMatters now provides a single source for accessing expert genetic counselors via telehealth, a suite of patient engagement tools and the most comprehensive telegenetics platform available.

Key Points: 
  • GeneMatters now provides a single source for accessing expert genetic counselors via telehealth, a suite of patient engagement tools and the most comprehensive telegenetics platform available.
  • The Pioneer Telegenetics Platform enables customized, seamless integration for telehealth genetic counseling service delivery and patient management.
  • Since launch in 2017, GeneMatters has continued to improve patient access to genetic services through innovation.
  • GeneMatters provides telehealth genetic counseling and software solutions that increase access to genetic services.

TeleHealth Solution Announces Groundbreaking Integration with PointClickCare to Serve Long Term Care Patients

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

This integration brings together TeleHealth Solution, the leader in digital medicine for long-term care communities, with PointClickCare , the leading EHR solution for these care settings.

Key Points: 
  • This integration brings together TeleHealth Solution, the leader in digital medicine for long-term care communities, with PointClickCare , the leading EHR solution for these care settings.
  • Telehealth Solution makes a team of multispecialty providers available via telemedicine that would not have been available to post-acute care patients on-site historically.
  • Working with TeleHealth Solution allows skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, senior living, and hospitals to provide expert medical care to patients on site and this capability is further enhanced by the new integration.
  • All information is locked behind direct login tokens exchanged with PointClickCare and the TeleHealth Solution Webside Connect Platform.

Nemours Actively Supports Federal Legislation to Reduce Medicaid Barriers to Telehealth for Children

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Friday, October 2, 2020

Nemours has been a vocal advocate for policies, like the TIKES Act , that remove barriers to covering care provided via telehealth for families receiving Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits.

Key Points: 
  • Nemours has been a vocal advocate for policies, like the TIKES Act , that remove barriers to covering care provided via telehealth for families receiving Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits.
  • During the COVID-19 public health emergency, telehealth became crucial for countless families abiding by public health recommendations to temporarily avoid in-person medical visits.
  • Government policy waivers were highly effective in unleashing the power and potential of telehealth to provide safe care to children and families.
  • I urge my fellow members to support this legislation that will help build upon the telehealth foundation that we have built this year."

Major Groups Representing Millions of Patients Release Telehealth Principles

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Thursday, September 24, 2020

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --A coalition of organizations representing millions of patients who live with serious, acute, and chronic conditions has released principles to guide policymakers seeking to ensure patients can continue to safely access appropriate telehealth services during and after the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --A coalition of organizations representing millions of patients who live with serious, acute, and chronic conditions has released principles to guide policymakers seeking to ensure patients can continue to safely access appropriate telehealth services during and after the COVID-19 public health emergency.
  • However, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role telehealth can play in helping all patients continue to receive timely and safe health care services and treatments from their providers.
  • At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal and state agencies provided new, and in some cases time-limited, flexibilities to increase access to telehealth.
  • This has allowed millions of patients to access necessary health care services from the comfort and safety of their homes, driving an exponential increase in telehealth utilization.

American Board of Telehealth Launches CORE Concepts Course

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

The certificate course is open to anyone and is appropriate for physicians, health care professionals, administrators, students, or others who are interested or involved at some level in telehealth.

Key Points: 
  • The certificate course is open to anyone and is appropriate for physicians, health care professionals, administrators, students, or others who are interested or involved at some level in telehealth.
  • The American Board of Telehealth and this CORE curriculum will help to accomplish all these goals and so we encourage anyone who has interest or involvement in telehealth whether as a student, medical professional or administrator to take advantage of this educational opportunity.
  • The American Board of Telehealth (ABT) is promoting a strategic vision for the advancement of high-quality, evidence-based telehealth education.
  • The board is focused on providing education and training to validate the knowledge needed to succeed in telehealth and virtual care delivery.

Telehealth Shown to be Successful in Supporting PCP1st During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Monday, August 24, 2020

"It also is helping us to safely care for high-risk patients keeping them healthier at home and supporting the safety of our staff.

Key Points: 
  • "It also is helping us to safely care for high-risk patients keeping them healthier at home and supporting the safety of our staff.
  • The telehealth platform is now helping our team to be even more effective in caring for our patient population."
  • The Case Study also identified that the ease of use of the telehealth platform allowed the PCP1st team and their patients to rapidly become proficient using telehealth-enabled care.
  • The use of the telehealth platform helped to strengthen the patient-provider relationship and improved the productivity of the care team.

AltaPointe works to ensure access to care during COVID-19

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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Health care providers in both urban and rural areas of the country will use the funding to provide telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic.

Key Points: 
  • Health care providers in both urban and rural areas of the country will use the funding to provide telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, is was evident that the popularity of virtual care is rising and will only continue its upward trend.
  • AltaPointe clinicians provided 13,133 telehealth services across seven counties in Alabama in 22019.
  • Telehealth removes barriers to care, allowing providers to virtually see patients anytime, anywhere through the use of mobile technologies.

Ro and Ribbon Health Partner To Promote Better Continuity of Care for Patients Between Telehealth and In-Person Providers

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

NEW YORK, June 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ro , a leading U.S. telehealth company, and Ribbon Health , an innovative healthcare data platform, today announced a partnership to close the gap between telehealth and in-person providers and promote better continuity of care for patients.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, June 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ro , a leading U.S. telehealth company, and Ribbon Health , an innovative healthcare data platform, today announced a partnership to close the gap between telehealth and in-person providers and promote better continuity of care for patients.
  • This partnership makes Ro the first and only U.S. telehealth company to seamlessly connect patients to in-person providers across the country.
  • Ros partnership with Ribbon Health showcases whats possible when we start to connect telehealth and in-person care more closely -- expanding access to care, increasing transparency around price and quality of care, and promoting the continuity of patient care.
  • This is just one step to improve the continuity of care between telehealth and in-person care, and can help patients and the providers they see manage their health more effectively.