Making The Strategic Shift From Telehealth To Virtual Care

What a difference a decade or so makes. As we were preparing this issue of the management newsletter, I took a trip through our archives. In 1998, HRSA set up its telehealth office (see HRSA Establishes New Telehealth Office). The first innovation in the space we reported on was a system developed by Kodak to facilitate telephone-based care consultations in 2000 (see New Kodak System To Monitor Health Over Telephone is Cleared by FDA). In 2001, Medicare permitted its (complicated) reimbursement of telehealth (see The Department Of Health And Human Services Expands Payment For Telehealth Services), and in 2004 . . .