Telehealth 2.0 is the name of this year’s American Telemedicine Association (ATA) meeting and tradeshow at the Orlando Convention Center in Florida. This year, GlobalMed is demonstrating eNcounter 4 to attendees, our telemedicine software platform that works on tablets and smartphones as well as laptops and desktop computers. eNcounter now…
Florida has struggled to find a path to telemedicine parity for the past three or four years. Stymied by opposition in the last legislative session, lawmakers punted in 2016, creating a statewide Telehealth Advisory Committee to develop recommendations. The committee has submitted a preliminary report, and it concluded that the…
Recently the Arizona Senate and House met to consider bills for telemedicine parity. Telemedicine parity requires insurance companies to reimburse physicians who see remote patients telemedically at the same rate as in-person visits. During the Arizona Legislative session in 2013, the original telemedicine parity bill for rural areas only received…
Representative Tom Price says he believes telemedicine can increase access to healthcare. Representative Price spent nearly four hours answering questions from members of the Senate Education, Health, Labor, and Pensions Committee today. The well-regarded Georgia orthopedic surgeon and Republican from that state was finally asked a question about telemedicine in…
Making the decision to keep a child home from school can be tricky. When your child wakes up with the sniffles, you check to see if his or her forehead is warm to the touch. Next you grab the digital thermometer to check for an above normal temperature. If it’s…
When President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965, the average life expectancy of Americans was 70. Many of the 19 million people who signed up for Medicare during that first year didn’t make it to their 70th birthday. The Medicare budget was about $10 billion. Over time, Congress…
Experts agree that work-life balance is important for physicians to avoid depression. When it comes to stress, healthcare professionals used to find their medical school studies and post-graduate training especially trying because of the hours demanded. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that nearly 50 percent of…
