Featured Report: Using telehealth the right way

Modern Healthcare

Using telehealth the right way June,18,2014 By: Darius Tahir  Ateev Mehrotra, an adjunct policy analyst for RAND Corp. and a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School, likes telehealth but has a critical concern: how it's paid for. It won't work unless it's got the right incentives, he's said in testimony and in an interview. During his testimony to the House Energy & Commerce Committee earlier this year on how payment reform and telehealth can support each other, Mehrotra pointed out that as the care system shifts toward addressing chronic conditions, the potential benefits of telehealth increase commensurately. Read More MobiHealthNews Senate asks healthcare groups to weigh in on transparency data June,18,2014 By: Brian Dolan Last week the Senate Finance Committee sent letters to a wide assortment of healthcare stakeholders to source input on how the federal government could improve “the availability and utility of health care data” so that patients could more easily shop for doctors that suit their needs, providers could deliver higher quality care, and payers could design more effective care delivery models. Read More HealthDataManagement Georgia Regents Works to Make Telemed Network Sustainable June,19,2014 By:Joseph Goedert In 2003, two-hospital Georgia Regents Health System in Augusta began offering remote stroke teleconsultations with mid-sized and smaller hospitals in the region. Today, it serves 29 hospitals and has conducted nearly 4,000 examinations. The delivery system now is expanding to offer a range of other teleconsultations that include other neurological conditions, as well as pulmonary, psychiatry and pediatric care. Lessons learned from stroke consultations often apply to other remote examinations, say Steve McGraw, CEO at telemedicine vendor REACH Health and Jeffrey Switzer, D.O., a Georgia Regents neurologist who has conducted teleconsultations since 2006. Read More FierceHealthIT Feds, AMA look to telemedicine, health IT to treat hepatitis C June,19,2014 by:Katie Dvorak The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention partnered with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the American Medical Association to use health IT and telemedicine to treat patients with hepatitis C. The CDC is working to help patients who live in remote areas and have limited access to care. The lack of provider expertise in treatment of HCV--and limited access to providers who do--poses a challenge to care, according to a Health IT Buzz blog post by John Ward, director of the division of viral hepatitis at the CDC, and Amy Helwig, medical officer at the ONC. Read More KaratBars International Welcome to Karatbars Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.