Telehealth

Arizona-based Petersen HIV clinic has used Zoom for Healthcare to continue providing care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Members can now use the Toothpic dentistry telehealth app for three months at no charge and receive a discount on Philips Sonicare tooth care products.

“In our journey towards virtual healthcare & telehealth in Western NSW, there was a really purposeful transition toward it, looking at some of the problem areas across our region as pain points we had to address,” said Dr Shannon Nott.

This special report brings together four telemedicine experts from Amwell, Caregility, Eko and emocha Health to offer best practices for optimal technology performance.

In a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma, scores of medical associations called on the agency to sunset waivers related to scope of practice and licensure once the pandemic has subsided.

Change Healthcare CEO Neil de Crescenzo describes how the company, which has seen some big changes in the year since its IPO, has been tailoring its technologies to help payers, providers and patients during the pandemic.

Today the high-profile provider is using its expansive, multistate telemedicine programs to best serve COVID-19 patients.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a new KLAS report finds that health systems most frequently sought telehealth technology – though no single vendor dominated the field.

This week's top stories include hospitals scrambling to comply with the requirement to submit data to HHS, privacy issues with Google and Apple's contact tracing app, and the feds partnering with Pfizer on a potential COVID-19 vaccine.