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The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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7 Remarks and Discussion: Day 1
Pages 55-60

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... However, constraints remain due to outdated payment delivery mechanisms, federal and state statutes, and regulations that limit the expansion of services and interstate commerce in health care. To move forward, we need greater provider engagement, sharing of best practices, collaboration with the specialty societies, the advancement of innovative care coordination models, and the evaluation of telehealth 55
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... In addition, we should not move ahead with assumptions about what patients want or value. Telehealth leaders also need to look more closely at existing models to learn more about who the providers of telehealth care actually are.
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... University of Colorado Denver It is particularly important to not isolate the discourse among those in this particular section of the industry from the broader narrative about health care. The issues regarding telehealth usage are matters of degree and emphasis not substantively different than what all others in the health care industry are facing.
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... What about the continuity of care? · How will rapidly evolving technologies continue to change how health care is delivered and how can we keep up with these changes?
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From page 59...
... Antoniotti noted the slow change from resistance by physicians, to schools and residency programs beginning to teach telehealth, to new graduates expecting availability of telehealth in their practices. She noted that policy has not moved as quickly as practice to embrace telehealth.
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