Volume 3, 2018

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Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT), is an open access online, international peer review journal where strategic thought leaders, new-era practitioners, and future society stakeholders converge to unveil solutions in a new health and technology sector. TMT assists building knowledge and consensus for launching and scaling delivery services to achieve sustainable outcomes. The journal publishes research articles and commentaries related to innovations in patient-centered care, advances in program implementation, outcomes, process improvement, financial impact, and clinical research applications across the care continuum in a new era of value based care. A world-class peer-review board endeavors to offer rapid, peer-review (14 days), and includes constructive commentary to strengthen work. The online only journal is published on a continuous basis in order to accelerate sharing of rigorously vetted theoretical and experiential knowledge required for a growth sector.

The audience for Telehealth and Medicine Today includes leadership hospitals and medical research centers, payer organizations, researchers, innovators, medical directors, IT/IS, healthcare providers, and academicians. In addition, biopharma and device companies are represented. Anyone with an interest in can freely access Telehealth and Medicine Today for information on the implementation and advances on the horizon in the specialty.

Published: 2018-07-23

Editorial

  • The Coming Revolution: The Healthcare Challenge

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Perspective, Opinion, and Commentary on a Current Issue Impacting the Sector

  • CMS Signals Support for Remote Patient Monitoring with New Reimbursement Incentives

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    Carrie Nixon is the Managing Member of Nixon Law Group and CEO of Nixon HealthNexus, a healthcare reform and innovation consultancy. She is an expert in healthcare law and policy issues relating to healthcare reform and value-based delivery/reimbursement, including Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs), MACRA and MIPS reporting, Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs), public and private Health Insurance Exchanges (HIM and PHIX), Health Information Exchanges (HIE), and mobile health/telemedicine. Carrie provides counseling in governance and regulatory compliance matters such as HIPAA/privacy and fraud and abuse restrictions. She represents hospitals and health systems, health plans, individual physicians and physician groups, pharmacies, post-acute care providers, telehealth companies and healthcare startups.

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    Rebecca E. Gwilt is a Virginia-licensed attorney and Partner at Nixon Law Group. She provides legal, regulatory, and business guidance to health care clients, focused primarily on public and private healthcare reforms (e.g., ACA, HITECH, MACRA, bundling/accountable care), health information technology (including mHealth and telehealth), integrated care, value-based care, fraud and abuse (Stark, Anti-kickback, False Claims, and CMP), and healthcare privacy/security (HIPAA, FERPA, Part 2).  She also provides corporate and transactional services to healthcare clients, including business formation and dissolution, employment contracts and disputes, licensing, board and general compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and reimbursement. She has a particular interest in serving growing healthcare technology businesses.

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  • All Health Technology Requires Compassion, Collaboration, and Humanism for Optimal Care

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Review Articles

  • Excellence in Practice — Key Qualities of Successful Telehealth Programs

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  • Telemental and Telebehavioral Health Considerations: A 50-State Analysis on the Development of Telehealth Policy

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    AMY F. LERMAN is a Member of the Firm in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice, in the Washington, DC, office of Epstein Becker Green. Ms. Lerman focuses her practice on a variety of regulatory and transactional health care matters, including telehealth and telemedicine, government investigations, corporate compliance, durable medical equipment, and Medicare program integrity auditing and monitoring. She represents a variety of health care providers and organizations, as well as investors and other financial institutions that invest in or support the health care industry.

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    DANIEL KIM* is a Law Clerk – Admission Pending – in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice, in the Washington, DC, office of Epstein Becker Green. He will be focusing his practice on FDA marketing approval of medical devices and pharmaceutical, reimbursement and compliance matters affecting health care medical device manufacturers, telehealth and telemedicine, HIPAA privacy and security, regulatory health care due diligence, and compliance issues.

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    FRANCESCA R. OZINAL is an Associate in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice, in the Washington, DC, office of Epstein Becker Green. She focuses her practice on such areas as fraud and abuse, telehealth, federal and state regulatory and compliance issues affecting a broad range of health care stakeholders, litigation, government investigations, and due diligence.

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    THERESA E. THOMPSON is an Associate in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice, in the Washington, DC, office of Epstein Becker Green. Her practice focuses on such areas as telemedicine, fraud and abuse, government investigations, litigation, and compliance.

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Feature Article: Letter from the Publisher

  • Notes from the Publisher

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