Healthcare IT News October 14, 2020
He predicted in a Tuesday speech that patients will eventually see telehealth as a “durable and desirable” part of their healthcare experience.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar this week praised the Trump administration’s technology response to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting its efforts on data collection, telehealth expansion and more.
During a brief speech Tuesday evening at the HLTH VRTL 2020 conference, Azar highlighted the efforts of HHS to collect data concerning COVID-19 patients and predicted that patients will see telehealth as “a durable and desirable part of their healthcare” in the long term.
In July, HHS triggered concerns among public health experts and “chaos” at hospitals when it directed health systems to bypass the Centers...
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