What Service is 0.005% of Medicare Spending?

July 16, 2012
What service is 0.005% of Medicare spending? The answer to that question: telehealth.

This statistic was used by Health IT Now Executive Director Joel White in his presentation, Impediments To Deployment of Health Technology: An Executive Update on EHR Interoperability & Telehealth Regulatory Policy at the recent OPEN MINDS Planning & Innovation Institute, and illustrates the state of telehealth adoption in the U.S. health system.

Joel's presentation focused on why health system adoption of technology lags significantly behind almost every other industry, noting that the "big issues" impeding adoption are lack of reimbursement, regulatory . . .