Ann Mond Johnson is one of the top telehealth experts in the country. As CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, her work covers every aspect of this technological delivery of healthcare that has gone mainstream because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this informative podcast, Johnson talks about the hybrid model that may be the future of telehealth, what will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery, current telehealth policy priorities and challenges, and the work of her ATA Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities.

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Talking points:

• The surge throughout the early to middle stages of the pandemic that finally brought the technology into the mainstream.
• The future of telehealth is a hybrid model with in-person care.
• What this hybrid will look like and how it may change healthcare.
• What will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery.
• Federal and state policy to ensure the flexibilities put in place during the pandemic will become permanent following the public health emergency.
• Current telehealth policy priorities and challenges.
• The ATA's CEO's Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities.
• Conclusions of the group's first report, "A Framework for Eliminating Health Disparities Using Telehealth."

More about this episode:

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Improving rural care and health equity with telemedicine

Telehealth with a technician in the home reduces spend by 22% for Scottsdale Physician Group

How telehealth can help inpatient care, and what a hybrid future looks like

The challenges of telemental health, and how they can be overcome

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