mHealth Intelligence January 25, 2019
A panel of telehealth experts convened by the American Telemedicine Association says telemedicine will only flourish if providers, patients and payers can come together to promote interoperability.
Telehealth will only succeed in the US if it becomes interoperable.
That was the main takeaway from an American Telemedicine Association webinar this week, the opening salvo in a long-term campaign by the organization to promote scalability and sustainability by getting all parties in the connected care ecosystem to work together.
But while healthcare providers envision a telehealth system that allows real-time access to data across all platforms, the panel of experts convened by the ATA noted that interoperability includes getting patients, providers and payers onto that platform.
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