Telehealth

Date: May 2 2022

Summary: Exhaustive landscape analysis looking into telehealth opportunities and challenges

Keywords: ##bibliography #telehealth #cpt #quality #multistate #licensing #archive

Bibliography

R. Tuckson, M. Edmunds, and M. Hodgkins, “Telehealth,” New England Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2017. Accessed: Apr. 29, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMsr1503323?articleTools=true

Table of Contents

A literature survey of telehealth insights.

Definitions

• Telehealth

- Interchangeably used with telemedicine
- Transferring medical information between sites via telecommunications to improve patient health [1]

Challenges in Telehealth

• Current Procedural Terminology Codes

- Get in the way currently of how individuals get paid for telehealth
- CPT Editorial panel working on this circa 2015

• Interstate licensing and care provision

- Federation of State Medical Boards created the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
	- Ease multistate licensing [2]
	- Not all states involved at the time of publication

• Quality of Care

- National Quality Forum developing telehealth framework
	- Telehealth Framework To Support Measure Development 2016 - 2017
		- Developed to identify existing and potential telehealth metrics

How To Cite

Zelko, Jacob. Telehealth. https://jacobzelko.com/05022022155118-telehealth. May 2 2022.

References:

[1] “About telemedicine. Washington, DC: American Telemedicine Association.” [Online]. Available: https://www.americantelemed.org/main/about/%20about-telemedicine/telemedicine-faqs. [Accessed: 02-May-2022].

[2] “Understanding the Medical Licensure Compact,” Federation of State Medical Boards, 2013.

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