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Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded

The Direct Doctors Difference

This recent Wall Street Journal article may have hit the nail on the head. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance companies and state & federal regulators really reduced the requirements surrounding telehealth. The rollbacks of telehealth coverage are not helping.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities in Senate Omnibus Bill

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Audio-Only Telehealth This bill to include audio-only telehealth as a reimbursable option was also included in the Senate HHS omnibus bill. The omnibus bill includes many of the MAFP’s priorities. We are still awaiting release of the House Health bill but hope to see its inclusion there as well.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

In an article for Obesity , researchers investigated how to better design lifestyle-based weight loss programs for older adults in order to address muscle and bone health concerns. In the past several years, telehealth has opened tremendous opportunities to improve access to care.

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Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ

Some will be at the forefront, others will be doing telehealth, or may find themselves back in a hospital situation rather than in the community. Acknowledgements: The authors wish to acknowledge the work and support of the other members of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health who were not directly involved in writing this article.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In the other corner, we have the young upstart, able to reach patients across vast distances when delivering palliative care, all in the comfort of wearing pajamas, we have telehealth delivered palliative care. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care. Consultations versus telehealth.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. And then I got to choose the first article.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

One of your articles also I thought was fascinating because in the cancer population, if you look at cancer pain, I think a lot of us think cancer pain, you treat it with neuropathic drugs, medications, opioids. Or delivering them through telehealth, and we can talk about that. Alex: And you had this fascinating article.