MedPage Today July 27, 2020
Judy George

— Emerging trends in telemedicine and telehealth

Welcome to Telehealth Roundup, highlighting news and features about emerging trends in telemedicine and telehealth.

Telehealth Legislation Introduced

Members of the House Telehealth Caucus recently introduced bipartisan legislation to extend telehealth waivers permanently for Medicare patients, HealthLeaders Media reported.

The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act would continue telehealth use beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency, making telemedicine more flexible and removing geographic restrictions to allow a patient’s home to be an originating site.

In a Health Affairs blog, Seema Verma, MPH, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, weighed in: “As the health care system enters a new normal it is important to consider whether allowing people with particularly acute...

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