The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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12 Stakeholder Perspectives
12 Stakeholder Perspectives
Pages 115-124
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NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION Alan Morgan, M.P.A. National Rural Health Association We are at the perfect storm of health care: If we are to move forward in implementation of the ACA, if we are to address current workforce shortages in rural America, if we are to address quality and disparities, we have no other option than the use of telehealth as a clinical tool.
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The NRHA recommends that CMS adopt a policy to allow telehealth providers to receive deemed status (meaning that the providers meet Medicare and Medicaid certification requirements) and to allow for health care facilities receiving telehealth services to perform credentialing by proxy.
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Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium; American Telemedicine Association Providers who use telehealth usually start locally and then build to regional, national, and international efforts. Telehealth has largely been successful in Alaska -- it is depended upon to decrease costs (especially travel costs)
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In this vein, the ATA accredits telemedicine training programs. ATA Strategic Plan for Fiscal Year 2013 In the coming year, the ATA will continue to work on changes in public policy.
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The telehealth movement helps this shared decision-making and fundamentally changing the relationship between patients and providers toward an interaction that supports an informed, bilateral conversation to improve health. Other Healthy People 2020 objectives that support telehealth include goals to deliver reliable and actionable health information, goals to connect with culturally diverse and hard-to-reach populations, and a goal to provide sound principles in the design of programs and interventions that result in healthier behaviors.
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Telehealth also provides a variety of ways to communicate effectively with stakeholders, including social media. Mobilizing community partnerships can include partnerships with the private sector, civic groups, nongovernmental organizations, faith communities, and others to move entire communities toward health.
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Many other social media tools will be effective as we go forward to further engage people on a population basis. The Challenge of Paying for Population Health Information Technology Paying for population health information technology is always a challenge.
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He stated that by the nature of the health care delivery process in rural America, the NRHA and the ATA speak on a regular basis. Morgan further added that they need to bring other organizations into the discussions as they move forward.
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Ferguson referenced some changes, including that federal entities now do not require consultants to hold a license in the state in which the patient is being served, and that the ATA board has voted to take this on as a major policy issue. Benjamin stated that licensure issues will be driven and resolved by bigger business interests like ACOs and integrated health care systems that cross state lines.
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He further added that there has been an enormous assault on the public health prevention fund as well as money for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the APHA has been focused on preserving the core funding for infrastructure and public health. Ferguson noted that home telehealth and remote patient monitoring has been the largest growing sector of the telehealth industry, and the ATA does have a significant industry representation in its membership and is doing everything it can within its scope to be involved in these issues.
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