This Week's Healthcare Online News
Clinical Innovation + Technology
ATA: Telehealth provisions at stake in stalled physician payment bill
Mar,19,2014
by+Laura Pedulli
With an amendment inserted in the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act that likely will prevent its passage in the Senate, telehealth provisions also contained within the bill now are in limbo.
The bill passed the House earlier this month, but Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) had inserted an amendment that would push back penalties tied to the individual insurance mandate until 2019, assuring the bill would die on arrival in the Senate.
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iHealthBeat
Social Media Users Willing To Share Health Data Despite Concerns About Privacy
Mar,10,2014
by:+Lisa Zamosky
Janet Freeman-Daily writes a blog about lung cancer. As a former aerospace systems engineer with a degree from MIT, Freeman-Daily uses her blog, "Gray Connections," to describe scientific information in less technical terms for patients with lung cancer. It's also a forum in which she can share her personal experiences as someone who had been diagnosed (in 2011) with stage 4 lung cancer. She describes the purpose of her blog this way:
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
More training needed to get elderly using mHealth tools
Mar,17,2014
by:+Judy Mottl
Weak computer skills, poorly designed user interfaces and the lack of a compelling reason to use mHealth tools are prime reasons the elderly are not embracing mobile healthcare technologies, reveals a new University of Waterloo (ON, Canada) study.
"With training, adults aged 50 and over can be capable and interested in using mHealth applications their medication management. However, in order to adopt such technology, they must find a need that their current medication management system cannot fulfill," authors of the report, "Evaluating User Perceptions of Mobile Medication Management Applications With Older Adults: A Usability Study," write.
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Modern Healthcare
Proposed patient-centered telemedicine policy raises licensing questions
Mar,,2014
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The Federation of State Medical Boards will vote next month on a new telemedicine policy (PDF) that codifies that medical care takes place where a patient, not a provider, is located. It also states that whether a physician and patient have a virtual or a face-to-face encounter, there should be no differences in standards of care.
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