MedPage Today September 18, 2020
— AACE leaders on embracing technology in medicine
Telehealth has been available as a tool for health care practitioners for years but, until recently, it was primarily used to treat patients in rural areas and with various restrictions, including where the service could take place and licensure limitations. The practice of telemedicine has shifted dramatically in six short months. Although expansion of telehealth services has raised new challenges, telemedicine has been critical to provision of health care during the COVID-19 pandemic and can continue to deliver essential benefits into the post-pandemic future.
As the pandemic rapidly spread in the U.S. in mid-March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took swift and significant action. CMS expanded Medicare to permit...
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