Telemedicine

Telemedicine regulatory policy advancing slowly but surely (watch)

In this video, learn why people are starting to realize that telemedicine is simply another form of medicine.

Telemedicine

As always, reimbursement remains a hurdle to wider acceptance of technologies for remote care technologies. After all, Medicare still doesn’t cover most telemedicine services.

But the climate is improving, as American Telemedicine Association board member Alexis Gilroy, an partner in the Washington office of law firm Jones Day, said at this week’s ATA annual conference in Minneapolis.

According to Gilroy, people are starting to realize that telemedicine is becoming simply another form of medicine. “It’s really just the provision of healthcare. We’re just using a different modality to accomplish that,” said Gilroy, who serves on the state of Maryland’s Telemedicine Task Force.

Watch this video interview to learn more.

Photo: Flickr user USDA

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