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Telehealth Lessons from a Statewide Deployment — Kristi Henderson, Seton Healthcare Family

Ninety percent of healthcare executives say they have or are starting telehealth programs. Twenty-nine states have policies mandating telehealth reimbursement. Thirty-five percent of employers now offer telehealth. As many as 70% of physician, ER, urgent care visits are estimated to be manageable by phone or video. Surveys show over and…

Telemedicine for Obamacare to Trumpcare: Lessons from Wal-Mart & Texas Prisons

Presenter:  Dr. Glenn Hammack, President at NuPhysicia, Inc. Is your telehealth program under utilized? Find out how Texas prisons set up a system that’s now doing 160,000 telemedicine visits a year. Make sure your telemedicine services get used and prepare your organization to thrive in the changing healthcare world. Whether it’s…

How To Go From Telehealth Startup To Telehealth Enterprise – Ned Thurman

What are the key elements to successfully growing a telehealth service? What needs to be in place to go from telehealth concept to telehealth profitability. Ned Thurman, CEO of TeleHealth Solutions brings us 30 years of industry experience helping clients turn their telehealth concepts into thriving enterprises. Join us this…

Top 5 Telemedicine Regulatory Hurdles To Overcome-Charles Dunham, Epstein Becker Green

Need help navigating telehealth laws and regulations so you can run your telemedicine business? Learn the latest on how to handle payment operate across different states and best practices for staying compliant with legal and regulatory requirements. Join telemedicine lawyer, Charles Dunham, in this live webinar as we discuss the…

6 Things Telehealth Needs To Learn from Facebook

What is needed to get everyone doing telehealth the way Facebook got everyone sharing online? Young, hotshot CEO of Epharmix, Blake Marggraff is aiming to be the Mark Zuckerberg of telehealth. Join this week’s TFSS webinar as Blake shares his vision for the digital health world and his experiences from…

10 Unexpected Pitfalls of Telehealth Home Care for Seniors

For chronic disease patients receiving home care, telehealth is a gamechanger. And the number of these patients are expected to explode as the Baby Boomer generation ages. While the acceptance of technology by seniors has been the biggest concern of those who want to do telehealth with them, the truth…

How To Set Up Telehealth To Enhance Your Practice

Starting up telehealth services in one of the most highly regulated fields in the US can be like walking a minefield. Join our #TFSS webinar guest Ranya Habash, MD – an elite eye surgeon who has successfully added telehealth services to her practice and Chief Medical Officer of Everbridge. .…

How Value-Based Care Is Changing Telehealth Payment Models

  One of the most frustrating parts of doing telehealth is figuring out how you’ll get paid. Understanding reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid, and private payers is confusing to say the least. And with the push towards value-based care, current payment models are expected to change. Find out how others have…

Will Texas Kill the Teladoc & AmWell Business Model: Finding a Blueprint for Telemedicine Policy

  The Texas Medical Board (TMB) has been mired in a long-standing lawsuit with Teladoc over regulations restricting the practice of telemedicine. Is this a battle to control telemedicine businesses or is it something more? Join our telehealth policy expert, Dr. Nancy Dickey, as we take an in-depth look inside the TMB’s…

Demystifying the Telemedicine Triple Threat: Reimbursement, Licensure & HIPAA

Payment, physician licensure, patient privacy. These are three of the most commonly discussed regulatory “barriers” to telemedicine adoption. With changing healthcare payment models and increasing consumer demand, it’s becoming imperative for physicians and healthcare organizations to start offering telemedicine services. Understand common misconceptions on how these three areas of telemedicine…

Telehealth User Adoption: Blackholes and Bullseyes — Doug Shinsato, CEO, Anthill Ventures

Ninety-five percent of digital healthcare startups are destined to fail. What sets apart the winners from the losers? What does it take to succeed in business of telemedicine? Doug Shinsato, CEO of Anthill Ventures seed incubator and management consultant firm gives us an investor’s perspective of the telemedicine industry and…

Success in Telemedicine: The Nitty Gritty on Implementation, Billing, & Patient Engagement — Ranya Habash, MD – Everbridge, Hipaachat

Telemedicine success comes from simple solutions easily adopted by physicians Telemedicine has been practiced for years where it has been saving taxpayers money such as in the Texas prisons. The problem was that mainstream telemedicine devices were clunky and complicated to use. Physicians then and now were not willing to…

The 4 Decisions That Killed HealthSpot– Rajeev Mudumba, Intelli Healthcare

HealthSpot had it all. A star-studded list of investors and partners including Xerox, Rite Aid, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and Samsung. So it’s sudden decision to declare Ch. 7 bankruptcy shocked the entire telehealth industry. What went wrong? Was it a sign of the telehealth market? Or was…

Why Telehealth Is the Key for Lifestyle Interventions – Laurence Girard, Fruit Street

Why are lifestyle interventions failing? We know we have an obesity and chronic condition crisis that  is costing us millions in healthcare each year. We know that we can reduce the risk of all chronic diseases (heart disease, diabetes, etc.) by 80% by simply eating better, exercising regularly, and not…

Challenges of Designing a Scalable Telehealth Platform — Dr. Erika Chuang, VSee

Are video visits fundamentally not scalable? Does your EMR really have to integrate with your telehealth platform? Can I get my existing equipment to work with a telehealth platform? Are telehealth platforms really the way to go? Dr. Erika Chuang, VSee VP of Product Management takes us through the fundamental challenges…

Three Keys To Enterprise Success – Prentice Tom, MD, CEP America

Is your telehealth enterprise ready to survive and thrive through the unknown? Healthcare is a highly regulated industry in the midst of big changes. Using lessons from the Asian financial crisis, Bosnia, and Jeet Kune Do, Chief Medical Officer of CEP America, Prentice Tom, delivers a humorous and insightful presentation…

The 4 Reasons Digital Health is not Ubiquitous— Robert Kaul, CEO CloudDX

Ten thousand Americans turn 65 every day; 400 million people lack access to basic healthcare worldwide; 157 million Americans die of chronic disease every year; and 17 billion in hospital readmission penalties have been paid. There is a desperate need for telehealth innovation to help solve many of our most…

Telesurgery in Humanitarian Settings – Mohana Amirtharajah, MD, Doctors Without Borders

At this year’s TFSS conference, we had the pleasure of hearing about a telesurgery project from the field work of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). MSF is one of VSee’s most inspiring humanitarian organizations.  Whether it’s providing aid in war-torn countries, nations hit by natural disasters, or areas facing epidemics, they’re often the…

Can Platforms Accelerate Telehealth Adoption? – Paul Smolke, Microsoft

What is a platform and why do you need one to do telehealth? Paul Smolke of Microsoft argues that a telehealth platform helps patients to buy into your program.  Continue Reading…

Virtual Care Reality and Accelerators to Scale – James Mault, MD, Qualcomm

It’s time for a reality check. Virtual care has not lived up to the hype. True, the mobile revolution is mind-blowing. So why hasn’t telehealth kept pace? Jim Mault thinks he may know why, because his company Qualcomm is at the forefront of making virtual care a reality for everyone.Continue…