Teladoc Health CEO highlights evolution of telemedicine
In an interview, Teladoc Health CEO Jason Gorevic talked about its services for primary care, chronic conditions, mental health, and how it works with hospitals and health systems.
In an interview, Teladoc Health CEO Jason Gorevic talked about its services for primary care, chronic conditions, mental health, and how it works with hospitals and health systems.
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Telemedicine, teleworking, rapid tests, virtual school, and vaccine drive-throughs have become part of Americans’ routines as they enter Year 3 of life amid covid-19. But as innovators have raced to make living in a pandemic world safer, some people with disabilities have been left behind.
Telehealth has proven itself undeniably practical. However, ensuring its long-term survival will require ongoing work and revision, including broadband improvements, permanent Medicare reforms, Interstate Medical Licensure Compact participation and payment parity assurance.
A leader in telemedicine, Teladoc's stock is on a slide. But company leaders expect that investors will come around as the company continues to grow, gain customers and retain existing patients.
Reason Foundation, Cicero Institute, and Pioneer Institute released a report that rates each state’s current telehealth policy both in terms of ease of offering virtual care as well as patients' ability to access telehealth.
Rather than continuing to pour scarce resources into additional salaries, bonuses, benefits, and recruiting, providers should consider investing in digital patient engagement tools that enable existing staff to work more efficiently and at the highest of their abilities.
According to Rock Health’s annual consumer adoption survey, telehealth users tend to be higher income, younger and live in urban areas. The survey also tracked people’s satisfaction with telehealth and what modalities people used most to access care.
A study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that telehealth use increased 63-fold during the pandemic. But it also found significant disparities in telehealth use between urban and rural residents.
In the future – virtual care 2.0 – must build upon this understanding and focus on a new KPI (key performance indicator): patient autonomy, the ability of a person to treat themselves effectively and feel confident in their decisions.
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The call to action is that point-of-care testing needs to move to the home and it needs to be supported by a Medicaid or Medicare billing code to support insurance coverage and payment for the testing.
Covid-19 exposed serious weaknesses in the American healthcare system, and has taken an unfortunate personal and economic toll on the entire world. But in the end, I do believe that our healthcare system will emerge more accessible, affordable, and effective
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded the funds to studies that span a range of healthcare issues, including maternal care, suicide prevention and clinical effectiveness research in arenas like telemedicine and diabetes.
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Pretty soon, there will come a time where we don’t call digital modalities “virtual care.” It’ll just be the delivery of healthcare.