COVID-19 – The Rise Of Remote Healthcare

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COVID-19 The Rise Of Remote Healthcare
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COVID-19 The Rise Of Remote Healthcare
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced healthcare
providers to create new routes for providing
remote healthcare (care at distance) and it is
main driver for the rise of remote healthcare. In
particular, this pandemic has created a dramatic
push to find innovative ways to remotely and
effectively monitor patient health
status. Remote healthcare includes telemedicine
(telehealth) as a leading vehicle to deliver
virtual care however, its not the only vehicle
for diagnosing and treating patients remotely.
Telemedicine is accompanied with number of
additional features to enhance remote healthcare
for example- Remote patient monitoring
(RPM). Lets understand various vehicles of
remote healthcare in detail. Telemedine Telemedic
ine is the use of electronic communications and
information technologies to provide clinical
services when participants are at different
locations and closely associated with
telemedicine is the term Telehealth. Generally
telehealth encompasses broader technology
applications to distance education, consumer
outreach, and other applications. Telemedicine
includes Videoconferencing, e-health including
patient portals, transmission of still image
remote monitoring of vital signs, nursing call
centers and continuing medical education.
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• When it comes to reimbursement for Telemedicine
  Medicare has a specific list of CPT codes that
  are covered under telemedicine services.
• Remote Patient Monitoring
• Remote patient monitoring is an important
  application of telehealth and it is a method of
  healthcare delivery with the help of advancement
  in information technology to gather patient data
  outside of traditional healthcare settings.
• Lets see how RPM will help you amid covid-19.
• RPM will Eliminates the need for non-essential
  in-person visits, thus decreasing the chances of
  patient and provider exposure to COVID-19.
• Reduces overall healthcare costs for patients and
  physicians, with an overwhelming amount of
  evidence detailing improved disease management
  through RPM.
• Helps healthcare organizations scale their
  valuable clinical staff, which is especially
  essential during public health crises when
  providers resources are stretched thin.
• Serves as a critical early warning system for
  COVID-19 detection in individuals, especially for
  asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic individuals.

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• Reimbursement for RPM
• When we talk about reimbursement for RPM, CMS has
  mentioned in its final rule,
• To qualify for reimbursement under CPT codes
  99457 and 99458, CMS mandated at least 20 minutes
  of interactive communication time between
  provider and patient over a calendar month,
  However the 20 minutes of RPM care should not
  include interactive communication.
• The agency clarified that interactive
  communication can include both in-person and
  connected health channels.
• Now, you will have clear understanding of
  Telehealth and RPM in detail hence let look at
  some remote health services used for a variety of
  purposes
• Remote healthcare services
• Specialist referral services typically involve a
  specialist assisting a general practitioner in
  rendering a diagnosis. Here patient may seeing
  a specialist over a live, remote consult or the
  transmission of diagnostic images and/or video
  along with patient data to a specialist for
  viewing later.
• Direct patient care such as sharing audio, video
  and medical data between a patient and a health
  professional for use in rendering a diagnosis,
  treatment plan, prescription or advice. Here
  patients may located at a remote clinic, a
  physicians office or home.
• Medical education and mentoring, which range from
  the provision of continuing medical education
  credits for health professionals and special
  medical education seminars for targeted groups to
  interactive expert advice provided to another
  professional performing medical procedure.

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COVID-19 The Rise Of Remote Healthcare
As technology is advancing and various
entrepreneurs as well as companies are investing
in remote healthcare, it is sure that remote
healthcare will definitely rise. If you are a
physicians and started using these services
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