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The pandemic has forced the adoption of telehealth and other technologies that already existed, says Cam Deemer, president of DrFirst.
Pam Hoffman, the medical director of telehealth services at Yale New Haven Health Services and Yale Medicine, discusses how telehealth became a service that required a "clinical champion" to a necessary part of the health system's offerings.
Digital health titans Teladoc Health and Livongo are merging under the Teladoc name, CMS proposes telehealth changes under Trump's executive order, and the Taskforce on Telehealth Policy holds a town hall to solicit public input.
The Indian government has advocated the use of digital tools to accelerate virtual care, including telehealth, and address the shortage of hospital beds, says professor Krishnan Ganapathy, director of Apollo Telehealth Services, India.