Bringing Specialty Telebehavioral Medicine Home: Feasibility of a Quality Improvement Pilot for Medically Complex Patients
Objectives: The aims of this quality improvement project were twofold: Phase 1: conduct a needs assessment study for home-based telebehavioral medicine (H-TBM) among medically complex patients living in rural areas seeking care at an academic medical center (AMC) in a Behavioral Medicine Clinic, and Phase 2: evaluate the feasibility of a pilot impl...
By Lillian M. Christon, Jennifer Correll, Wendy Balliet, Eva R. Serber, Sharlene Wedin, Rebecca Kilpatrick, Lauren Holland-Carter, Stacey Maurer, Jimmy McElligott, Kelly Barth, Jeffrey J. Borckardt
Healthcare Providers Are Missing Opportunities to Capture Data that Support Population Health Programs
Data aggregation is important at every stage of population health management. A surprisingly simple (and often overlooked) way healthcare teams can collect data and gain the insights they need to successfully execute population health plans is to leverage healthcare surveys like health risk assessment surveys, medication adherence surveys, remote h...
By Allison M. Hart
Maximizing Your Telehealth Return on Investment (ROI): Five Best Practices to Increase Billing and Reimbursement
The sheer volume of telehealth codes reimbursed continues to grow, as all payers (federal, state, and private) approve and incorporate new policies and codes. Despite additional codes and friendlier policies, organizations seeking to be paid for telehealth still struggle with interpreting and utilizing automated processes to maximize telehealth rev...
By Monica Leslie Nash, Bryan T. Arkwright
What Consumers Want With Telehealth
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By TMT Team
Telemental and Telebehavioral Health Considerations: A 50-State Analysis on the Development of Telehealth Policy
Contemporary healthcare delivery models have a patient-centered approach, a focus on integrating the various types of services patients need, an emphasis on interdisciplinary treatment teams, and a commitment to adopting innovative technologies. Increasing utilization of telehealth technologies has helped foster these contemporary service delivery ...
By Amy F. Lerman, Daniel Kim, Francesca R. Ozinal, Theresa E. Thompson
The Coming Revolution: The Healthcare Challenge
The United States spends nearly 17% of its gross domestic product on healthcare,1 almost double that of any other industrialized country,2 and achieves worse outcomes by many measures.3 The U.S. may have the most healthcare in the world, but we do not have the best healthcare. Today, Healthcare in the U.S. is a poor value. If we are going to remain...
By John Halamka
All Health Technology Requires Compassion, Collaboration, and Humanism for Optimal Care
Imagine an appointment with a new patient. She’s waiting, fidgeting, looking down at her lap. You say hello, introduce yourself, and sit behind the computer. You enter key details into the EHR (electronic health record) as the appointment goes along. “Tell me why you’re here today,” you say. You try listening, but menus keep...
By Richard I. Levin, Brianne Warner Alcala
Notes from the Publisher
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By Tory Cenaj
Excellence in Practice — Key Qualities of Successful Telehealth Programs
When I was asked to create a new column within Telehealth and Medicine Today that focused on “Excellence in Practice,” I began to reflect on one of my favorite books, Jim Collins’ Good to Great. If you have not read it yet, I highly recommend it. It provided a guiding philosophy for my personal approach to leadership and building ...
By Shawn Valenta, Dee Ford
CMS Signals Support for Remote Patient Monitoring with New Reimbursement Incentives
Two final rules issued by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November 2017 gave physicians and other healthcare providers ringing in the New Year another reason to celebrate. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has opened entirely new avenues for reimbursement of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) services in 2018, ...
By Carrie Nixon, Rebecca E. Gwilt