Fierce Health Technology July 10, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated efforts to advance healthcare’s digital transformation. Months of stay-at-home orders and state public health ordinances forced more people than ever to take many of their face-to-face interactions online.
Over just a few months, millions of people and their doctors tried telehealth for the first time, aided by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) loosening of restrictions and temporary waivers of cost-sharing by health plans. And most indications suggest that we will only solidify many of these rapid gains in the months and years ahead. As CMS Administrator Seema Verma put it, “the genie’s out of the bottle.”
As we seize upon this moment to unleash the full potential of digital care, however, we...