Featured Report: CMS Issues Final Rule Recognizing Telehealth for Medicare Providers

iHealthBeat
CMS Issues Final Rule Recognizing Telehealth for Medicare Providers
May,07,2014
by+Staff
Final Rule's Impact on Telemedicine The new rule eliminates a requirement that physicians travel to rural or federally qualified health clinics at least once every two weeks, which CMS said is in recognition of physicians' use of telemedicine in remote areas (Dickson, Modern Healthcare, 5/7).
It states, "Recent improvements in, and expansion of, telemedicine services allow for physicians to provide certain types of care to remote facilities at lower costs." However, CMS said, such clinics "will continue to be required to have a physician onsite for sufficient periods of time depending on the needs of the facility and its patients" (CMS final rule, 5/7).
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Modern Healthcare
Alaska telehealth bill would allow phone, online prescribing visits
May,07,2014
by:+Joseph Conn
Alaska may soon allow physicians to write prescriptions for many medications without an initial face-to-face encounter between the prescriber and the patient. A bill to allow the remote prescribing process passed on the final day of the state legislative session April 25 and is awaiting the signature of Alaska Republican Gov. Sean Parnell.
The measure's aim is to enable patients “to obtain over-the-phone or online consultations where physicians can diagnose and, if necessary, provide a prescription,” according to a release by its sponsor, State Rep. Lynn Gattis, a first-term Republican from Wasilla.
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MobiHealthNews
Mobile health monitoring to hit $8 billion by 2019
May,07,2014
by:+Jonah Comstock
The market for mobile health monitoring and diagnostics was worth $650 million in 2012, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research. The firm projects that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 43.3 percent from 2013 to 2019. That will put the market at $8 billion in 2019.
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Wired
The Wealthy’s Premium Medical Care Is Now Available on Your Phone
May,06,2014
by:+DANIELA HERNANDEZ
Don Sommers was diagnosed with peripheral artery disease, a painful condition that restricts blood flow to the limbs. It was causing a blockage in his left leg that persisted despite several surgeries, and his doctors told him his options were up. “I was emotionally and physically really distraught,” says Sommers, 66, a retired chemical engineer. “I was getting to the point where I thought I really would lose my leg.”
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