mHealth Intelligence December 7, 2017
Executives from the nation’s largest health systems see a bright future for telehealth and mHealth, according to a UPMC survey. But reimbursement issues and reliability concerns will slow progress for now.
Less than half of the health systems surveyed in a new report are getting reimbursed for remote patient monitoring or virtual care – but that isn’t stopping them from launching new telehealth and telemedicine programs.
“The lack of reimbursement has not affected our strategy,” one health system CIO points out. “We have moved forward because it’s the right thing to do. [Telehealth] gives a better consumer experience.”
The survey of 35 of the nation’s largest health systems, conducted by UPMC’s Center for Connected Medicine in a partnership with the...
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