“Free” Telemedicine Provided by Insurers Costs More Than You Think
With all of the hype around telemedicine over recent years, health insurance companies have begun to bundle these solutions with…
News in Telemedicine: February 2018
The big news this month was the passage of the CHRONIC Care Act of 2017, which includes changes to Medicare…
JP Morgan / Berkshire / Amazon Collaboration Must Embrace Telemedicine to Succeed
Let’s start with the numbers: JP Morgan + Berkshire Hathaway + Amazon = Approximately 1,300,000 employees (this number can fluctuate…
Nurse Practitioners and Telemedicine: Same Timeline, Different Outcome
In February of 1974, Dr. Roger Mark published the first article in the medical literature to reference the term, “Telemedicine.”…
More Disruption Please
Three New Products Reshaping Healthcare. THE ROUNDER Innovator Health created Rounder (pictured above) to improve telehealth by moving from impersonal…
Drone-Delivered AEDs Are the Future of Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Telemedicine is often thought of as a convenient video visit by a provider from your home, or a video consultation…
Can a S.O.A.P Note Clean Up our Telemedicine Biases?
I have the pleasure of teaching the Telemedicine Certificate Program at the New York Institute of Technology’s College of Osteopathic…
Telehealth Billing Compliance: Medicare Says Goodbye to the GT Modifier
For over a decade, Medicare has required providers to append special modifiers to their CPT and HCPCS codes when billing…
Three Reasons Telemedicine Utilization Remains So Low
Nearly 85 percent of people with employer-provided health insurance in the United States have access to some level of telemedicine.…
The Butterfly Effect
Butterfly’s revolutionary chip technology could disrupt the portable ultrasound market by creating a device consumers can afford. It still rings…