MobiHealth News August 22, 2016
Heather Mack

In response to a request from Congress, the US Department of Health and Human Services released its report on the agency’s current telehealth efforts.

While it wasn’t within the 180-day deadline Congress gave the department in December, the report was comprehensive in its scope of the potential promise of telemedicine, especially given the ever-expanding availability of services, as well as the myriad difficulties in implementation due to inconsistent policies, costs and licensing agreements.

“…It is estimated that 61 percent of health care institutions currently use some form of telehealth, and between 40 and 50 percent of all hospitals in the United States currently employ some form of telehealth,” states the report, which includes rural/critical access hospitals, academic medical centers and...

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