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Long-Term
Care Nursing Homes Telehealth and Telemedicine Tool Kit
Today, CMS is issuing an electronic
toolkit regarding telehealth and telemedicine for Long Term Care Nursing
Home Facilities. Under President Trump’s leadership to respond to the
need to limit the spread of community COVID-19, CMS has broadened access
to Medicare telehealth services so that beneficiaries can receive a wider
range of services from their doctors without having to travel to a
healthcare facility. This document contains electronic links to reliable
sources of information regarding telehealth and telemedicine, including
the significant changes made by CMS over the last week in response to the
National Health Emergency. Most of the information is directed
towards providers who may want to establish a permanent telemedicine
program, but there is information here that will help in the temporary
deployment of a telemedicine program as well. There are specific
documents identified that will be useful in choosing telemedicine
vendors, equipment, and software, initiating a telemedicine program,
monitoring patients remotely, and developing documentation tools. There
is also information that will be useful for providers who intend to care
for patients through electronic virtual services that may be temporarily
used during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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