Every year, the Alzheimer’s Association invites advocates to come to Washington DC to learn, support one another, reward leaders who work to find cures for Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and finally, to go to Capitol Hill for “Hill Day-“ where advocates ask their Congresspeople to support continuing and new Alzheimer’s legislation. Along with long-time Alzheimer’s […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a flurry of changes to regulations around telehealth and virtual care – the vast majority of which expire once the public health emergency ends.
The current presidential administration and 116th Congress have each signaled their support for virtual care to various degrees over the past year. But neither took decisive, sweeping action that would permanently enshrine some of the major changes to telehealth policy.
So, the question on the minds of many telehealth advocates as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office is: What s next? We are at an inflection point, and inflections bring new challenges, said former senate majority leader Dr. William Frist, R-Tennessee, during the first day of the American Telemedicine Association s four-part EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.