Medical Economics February 16, 2021
Stephen Ondra, MD

Telehealth, remote monitoring will boost patient outcomes and value-based care results

Limited by the slow pace of change in traditional reimbursement models, shifts in the paradigm for patient care have also lagged far behind the possibilities created by transformative technology. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed that, catalyzing improvements in reimbursement by both commercial and government payers, not only for traditional telehealth but for other technologies that are advancing how we think about patient monitoring and care.

While the pandemic has accelerated the acceptance of telehealth and remote patient monitoring, the groundwork was already being laid even prior to COVID-19. According to McKinsey, U.S. consumer telehealth adoption began to skyrocket from 11 percent in 2019 to 46 percent...

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Topics: Digital Health, Health IT, mHealth, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Technology, Telehealth, Value Based
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