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Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition Virtual care is not a panacea, said panelists at the American Telemedicine Association s EDGE policy conference, so action must be taken to ensure no one is being left behind.
February 02, 2021
As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible.
Telehealth was held up as a panacea, said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association s EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.
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This week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced the Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act to the U.S. House of Representatives. Telehealth has expanded both at the individual provider and hospital system levels through support from federal and state emergency measures aimed at increasing access during the pandemic. Without legislative intervention many of these measures will disappear when the public health emergency ends. With this in mind, the Bill’s sponsors are focused on ensuring telehealth’s widespread accessibility for patients across the nation continues after the COVID-19 crisis subsides. The Bill’s sponsors have praised telehealth as an essential, cost-effective method of delivering care. They also expressed that telehealth should be widely available to address current needs, and those that could arise from future emergencies or disasters, and “to ensure that everyone has access to qua
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Humana Names Nwando Olayiwola, M.D., Chief Health Equity Officer
January 25, 2021 GMT
Nwando Olayiwola, M.D., MPH, FAAFP (Photo: Business Wire)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 25, 2021
Leading health and well-being company Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) has named Nwando Olayiwola, M.D., MPH, FAAFP, to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer.
Nwando Olayiwola, M.D., MPH, FAAFP (Photo: Business Wire)
In this newly created role, Dr. Olayiwola will report directly to Humana Chief Medical and Corporate Affairs Officer William Shrank, M.D., and will set direction and establish strategy to promote health equity across all Humana lines of business, including its care delivery assets. She will lead work to define enterprise-wide measures of equity, create goals for improvement and coordinate efforts to achieve them. In addition, Dr. Olayiwola will further Humana’s
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Even before the COVID-19 public health emergency, healthcare had a cyber target on its back, said Christopher Logan, director of healthcare industry strategy at the software company VMware. We ve been measuring the risks and the threat for telemedicine-type services for many years.
The question is not one of computer literacy, but whether basic security measures are in place, added Northwell Health s chief quality officer and deputy chief medical officer, Mark Jarrett. Providers associated with larger hospitals may have the privilege of an additional layer of security, while smaller or medium-sized providers are basically on their own, he said.