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Now that the virtual health platform is mainstream, future efforts will likely focus on the disparity in numbers between patients and providers.
The federal program could be a short-term patch for struggling rural hospitals or the last chance to move rural healthcare onto a model that works at scale. Michael Dalton of non-profit virtual care provider Ovatient explains.
Holly Davis, Bingham Healthcare CNO, says that while funding and data gaps exist, mobile phones, telemedicine and satellite internet mean that care is not as inaccessible in rural areas as healthcare leaders may think.
Electrophysiologists, who implant devices such as pacemakers, need technology to automatically determine when the billing period ends, says Sallie Gustafson, RN, director of Medical Affairs at Murj.