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Changes May Be Ahead for Chronic Care Management
Author: Marron-Stearns, Michael
Source: AHIMA newsletter article | CodeWrite
Publication Date: October 2016
Starting January 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began reimbursing providers for non-face-to-face care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions, per the chronic care management (CCM) services initiative. Despite the fact that CCM has....
Telehealth Holds Promise for the Future of Healthcare
Author: Martin, Melissa
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2016
In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly traveled from 1985 to 2015, and while there he used videoconferencing to communicate with his coworker Needles. Although the real 2015 might not be exactly the world that Marty McFly found in the movie, teleconferencing with a doctor and other te....
Developing and Implementing Telehealth Program: the VA's Story
Author: Nugent, Linda; Johnson, Mary; Maloney, Dan; Goyal, Pawan
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
Introduction
Home Telehealth is an effective and efficient approach to delivering home care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates total national health expenditures for home care was $36.1 billion in 2002.1 Historically, this has been about one-half of the tot....
Connections to Care: How Technology Makes Information Accessible
Author: Pearsaul, Sara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2002
Healthcare grows safer and more effective all the time, due in part to Internet-based technology. In this article, learn how healthcare facilities are using the electronic medical record, telemedicine, personal digital assistants, and more to transform healthcare delivery.
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Perceptions of the Benefits of Telemedicine in Rural Communities
Author: Potter, Andrew J; Ward, Marcia M; Natafgi, Nabil; Ullrich, Fred; MacKinney, A Clinton; Bell, Amanda L; Mueller, Keith J
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: July 2016
Abstract
Telemedicine is a means of improving care quality and access in rural areas, but limited evidence is available on how telemedicine affects the hospital-community relationship. We examined hospital staff perceptions about the ways in which rural communities benefited from....
E-Mail Security (1997)
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: June 1997
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Technology of Telemedicine
Author: Welch, Julie J.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 1999
Telemedicine is "the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications for the health and education of the patient or healthcare provider and for the purpose of improving patient care."1 According to a recent report to Congress by the US Departments of....
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