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....

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....

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....

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.

Hardly a....

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....

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.

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....