The past year saw a sharp increase in the number of telemedicine visits, largely due to the public health emergency precipitated by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that telemedicine visits in the first quarter of 2020 increased...
According to a recent report from the American Academy of PAs (AAPA), nearly two in three PAs (64%) reported using telemedicine in their practice in the month of June. This is a marked increase from the approximately one in 10 that reported using telemedicine in February. Of those who reported...
As regulatory bodies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services make policy changes that allow for greater reimbursement, and more practitioners start to employ telemedicine services, the telehealth industry is seeing unprecedented growth—largely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic...
In a recent Massachusetts General Hospital webinar, Neil Naik, MD, emergency medicine simulation education director at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, offered physicians suggestions on how to improve their bedside manner as they transitioned to providing care via telemedicine, which for...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 9
As 2020 launched, healthcare executives had no way of knowing the havoc a novel virus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, would wreak on the healthcare industry. By March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization acknowledged a pandemic was in progress, and COVID-19 began impacting the U.S....
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in support of the expansion of telemedicine services, particularly in rural areas. This order makes permanent the increased offering of telemedicine services necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.