Trend Watch: Virtual Care as an Employee Benefit
By Dr. Lisa Ide – There’s a new trend in employee benefits: offering a virtual care service. And, employers are embracing these additional health benefits.
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Social Determinants of Health and The Role of Virtual Care
By Lee Horner – Increasing costs of healthcare and prevalence of chronic diseases are motivating payers to improve the health of member populations while managing the resources involved.
Tower of Babel? Virtual Care Legislative Challenges Go Far Beyond Language
By Rebecca Hafner-Fogarty MD & Jon Pearce – Recently, Mobihealthnews published a piece providing one perspective on the legislative barriers for telemedicine. We were interested to see where the discussion would go, particularly considering Zipnosis’ significant role in supporting
The Virtual Care Reimbursement Conundrum
By Rebecca Hafner-Fogarty, MD – Virtual care holds enormous potential to transform the healthcare landscape. Since you are here, you most likely agree that virtual care (and telemedicine) can be of great benefit for patients, providers, and health systems.
Virtual Care: Telehealth’s New Value Proposition
By Lee Horner – Many providers are still wary of telehealth, as they are of any tool or technology that will require them to practice differently. However, emerging technology which does not require providers to alter their workflows are revealing a totally new value proposition.
Blockchain, AI and Virtual Care — Buckle Up, Healthcare Tech is Taking off in 2018
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden – Technology continues to move at an exponential pace, leaving virtually no industry untouched. Healthcare is no exception — the technological progress in this space is offering incredible opportunities to improve the health of our population…
Is a Medical Virtualist Specialty Necessary? Probably Not.
By Rebecca Hafner-Fogarty, MD – Recently an opinion piece in JAMA came to my attention. In it, Drs. Nochomovitz and Sharma called for a new medical specialty to be recognized: the medical virtualist.
Our Take: Net Neutrality, Virtual Care, and the Deregulation Demolition Derby
By Jon Pearce – In a 3-2 vote December 14th, the FCC decided to overturn its rules around net neutrality. But, what does this deregulation mean for virtual care? While no one can truly know the future, some very real concerns have been raised about the impact of internet deregulation on virtual care.
Healthcare Regulation: Virtual Care Goes to Washington
By Rebecca Hafner-Fogarty MD – Healthcare regulation: It’s a challenging, complex, and fascinating thing. And it becomes even more so when new technologies like virtual care are added to the equation.