coronavirus - covid19
Rashmi Malapur
COVID-19 has made us forget those with acute ...

Prioritizing the prevention of the spread of COVID-19, has globally and unintentionally led to leaving behind those who already live on the brink of life and death everyday. They are people with chronic health conditions. Patients suffering with cancer or any rare disease and hospitals shutting their doors to people not having COVID-19 is a problem.

COVID-19 has made us forget those with acute and chronic health conditions
coronavirus - covid19
Dharti Thakare
Some young and middle-aged coronavirus patients ...

Doctors have reported that COVID-19 appears to be causing sudden strokes among people in their 30s and 40s who are not otherwise seriously ill. Some young and middle-aged Americans have experienced strokes after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. There is growing evidence that COVID-19 infection can lead the blood to clot unnaturally, and an expected consequence of that would be a stroke.

Some young and middle-aged coronavirus patients are dying of strokes
coronavirus - covid19
Rashmi Malapur
Half a century ago June Almeida discovered ...

June Almeida viewed into her electron microscope in 1964 to observe a round, grey dot with tiny spokes. Almeida and her colleagues noted that the pegs formed a halo around the virus just like the sun’s corona.

Half a century ago June Almeida discovered coronavirus, but got little recognition
Telehealth Software, coronavirus - covid19
Dharti Thakare
President Trump expands telehealth benefits for ...

The Trump Administration is encouraging use of telehealth facilities to help patients and providers to combat the sudden outbreak of Coronavirus. It has announced expanded Medicare telehealth coverage to enable beneficiaries to get a wider range of healthcare services from their doctors without travelling to a healthcare facility. Starting from March 6, 2020, Medicare - administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - will temporarily pay clinicians to extend telehealth services to beneficiaries living across the entire nation.

President Trump expands telehealth benefits for Medicare beneficiaries to combat Coronavirus
substance use disorder
Rashmi Malapur
Telehealth can assist in treating substance use ...

America is heckled by the challenge of substance use disorder. There has to be a solution to this impending issue; government and the medical communities are doing their bit to find solutions but the sheer magnanimity of the issue demands more attention and efforts in the right direction. The point of worry is that most patients are not receiving help, guidance and treatment.

Telehealth can assist in treating substance use disorders

telehealth visits

What telehealth users should know?

As a telehealth user one should be aware about the latest developments. Let us look at the major changes in the approach towards virtual care and telehealth. The new bill exempts telehealth visits from meeting deductible requirements, which are a part of high-deductible health plans.

Senators request telehealth waivers for home healthcare providers

The latest form of the bill will give the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services the authority to issue waivers for home healthcare services that get delivered by telehealth in order to replace in-person visits while the country faces a public health emergency.

Telehealth is here to stay

Telehealth has always been around but we least expected that it would take a pandemic to make more and more people convinced of its utility. According to the recently conducted survey by The Harris Poll, roughly 65% of respondents said they would continue to use telehealth after the pandemic ends.