Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-up and What’s Ahead

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 What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings/Markups – Tuesday, June 26 House Veterans Affairs Committee, “VA Electronic Health Record Modernization: The Beginning of the Beginning.” House Appropriations Committee, “Markup of FY19 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill.” Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education, “Markup of FY19 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill.” Senate Finance Committee, “Prescription Drug Affordability and Innovation: Addressing Challenges in Today’s… Read more »

Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-up and What’s Ahead

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 What’s Ahead: This Week  Hearings/Markups – Tuesday, June 5 Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Military Construction Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, “Markup of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019.” Wednesday, June 6 House Ways & Means Committee, Subcommittee on Health, “Hearing on Lowering Costs and Expanding Access to Health Care through… Read more »

Both Sides of the Aisle Agree – Telemedicine is the Future | The Hill Op-ed

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Last Thursday, in the midst of the intense debate about the future of ObamaCare, Congress held yet another hearing extoling the virtues of telehealth and remote patient monitoring, and lamenting the barriers in Medicare that are preventing seniors from accessing these new technologies in the same way as patients in the commercial market. The hearing… Read more »

Five National Policy Developments that Advance Telemedicine

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This year was a busy year for telemedicine at the state level. State legislatures and medical boards across the country considered dozens of measures, most of them aimed at improving the policy environment for telemedicine. In the flurry of activity, you may have missed some major developments at the national level that are going to… Read more »

The Role of Policy in Hindering Telemedicine’s Progress

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The Los Angeles Convention Center is abuzz this week with discussions about the future of patient care as the American Telemedicine Association brings together entrepreneurs, technology and device companies, health systems, and others for their annual meeting. Treating patients is no longer restricted to regular office hours and judging by the exhibit hall at the… Read more »