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    Health care providers stood up virtual health care services with lightning speed as the coronavirus pandemic emerged in the U.S. Telehealth and its various flavors enabled both patients and providers to manage the risk of contracting the virus, especially at a time when little was known about the nature of transmission, treatment and prevention — except for washing hands, covering one’s face, and…

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    • Growing evidence for eConsults #telehealth that's asynchronous, clinician-to-clinician via @MilbankFund https://t.co/7bvJthIW1e eConsults increase #healthcare access, drive #ptsatisfaction & doctors' sat, & can lower #healthcosts @AmericanTelemed @VarshaVim #ATA2020 #Gotelehealth https://t.co/NE4M0wcION

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    Telemedicine is being hailed as a vital component of the nation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Barriers to its use have doctors abandoning it.

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    • New @statnews @Ateevm @DavidLinetsky @HRHatch "Assumption was that after Cing benefits of #telemedicine physicians & patients would embrace it & growth would continue...but that hasn't happened" https://t.co/njkW7N8uIg Why? Financial uncertainty #ATA2020 #GoTelehealth #Telehealth https://t.co/vxZtG3EJnE

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    During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we have seen a dramatic shift from in-person visits to telehealth services around the globe, unveiling what may be the new normal for providing healthcare services.

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    • In #COVID19 pandemic #telehealth use has grown around the world @MorganLewisLaw offers this snapshot on #virtualcare markets inc US, China, Singapore & UAE https://t.co/qiB2jI7114 #Telemedicine #ATA2020 #GoTelehealth @AmericanTelemed

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    Telehealth usage skyrocketed during COVID-19. But it also revealed inequities in the healthcare system. By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, MA, MHSA In March, the World Health Organization (WHO) used the word “pandemic”…

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    • How #telehealth & #healthequity can survive after #COVID19 https://t.co/lOzSubnBq5 #Virtualcare has helped to democratize #healthcare access during #pandemic. How can this become #newnormal to address #healthdisparities & #universalhealthcare? #ATA2020 #GoTelehealth @Medecision https://t.co/Y3mkOZISqL

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    Without broadband connectivity to the last miles of America, neither the nation’s health citizens (taxpayers, all) won’t fully benefit from the promise of digital health technology. U.S. taxpayers have already underwritten $35 billion on the HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Stimulus Bill). HITECH provided economic incentives to hospitals and physicians…

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    • Gift of #COVID19 ->#mentalhealth improvement in US - #behavioralhealth may turn out better post-#pandemic believes Grant Chamberlain @Ziegler_Co Also #broadband as #SDoH or utility a la electricity (Amen! see this https://t.co/1xjqgvsNt3) #GoTelehealth #ATA2020 @VentureValkyrie https://t.co/6WazB5Jdb8

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    Video-based real-time services are just the beginning, said American Telemedicine Association President Dr. Joe Kvedar during his keynote for the virtual ATA2020 conference.

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    • Couldn't agree more w visionary @AmericanTelemed President, @jkvedar on #telehealth: "We have a lot more work to do." The #virtualvisit is here to stay but we need to build the supporting #digitalhealth ecosystem. #ATA2020 #healthItchicks #HCLDr #pinksocks https://t.co/GcKO1Ol6BR