{"id":16614,"date":"2020-08-11T10:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16614"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:26:47","slug":"telehealth-has-some-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16614","title":{"rendered":"Telehealth has some challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the global pandemic, the rapid rise of telemedicine has been critical for getting at-risk patients the care they need.\u00a0 Although overall visits to primary care doctors are still down by 20 percent, people still need care to help manage their health; however, the acceleration of telehealth has come with some speed bumps.\u00a0 In Dr. Shiv Rao\u2019s article appearing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\">www.fiercehealthcare.com<\/a>, he writes about the three challenges exposed in the new world of telehealth and how to overcome them. Read Dr. Rao\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/tech\/industry-voices-3-challenges-exposed-new-world-telehealth-and-how-to-overcome-them\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11020\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the global pandemic, the rapid rise of telemedicine has been critical for getting at-risk patients the care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16615,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16614\/revisions\/16615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}