Spurred by the slow adoption of technology-enabled health care, CCHP spearheaded a comprehensive effort to highlight telehealth’s value in achieving the Triple Aim goals of health reform.
HR 3230 makes a variety of changes to the Department of Veterans Affairs health care services. HR 3230 specically references the use of telemedicine in two sections.
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)’s HR 5294 intends to improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) call to amend Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a phased-in expansion of telehealth coverage under the Medicare program and for other purposes.
CCHP’s three-year telehealth demonstration project connected forty-three safety net health centers across California with specialists at five University of California Medical Centers.
