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Just after closing a $28 billion deal to acquire electronic health records company Cerner, tech giant Oracle said it thinks it can solve one of the biggest tech problems in healthcare: patient records.
The combined companies will create a national health records database that pulls in data from thousands of hospitals, said Larry Ellison, Oracle board chairman and chief technology officer, during a press briefing. Patient data would be anonymous until individuals give consent to share their information. “We’re building a system where all American citizens’ health records not only exist at the hospital level, but they also are in a unified national health records database,” Ellison said.
But, despite Ellison’s sweeping promises, Oracle will likely face an uphill battle to make the vision a reality. Health IT expertstweetedskepticism in the wake of the announcement. Experts in health technology and the federal government have spent years, if not decades, trying to make it easier for health records held at different institutions to communicate with each other.
Kaiser Permanente Patient Check-in Kiosks “On the Floor”
We noticed Olea Kiosks posted a new video of Kaiser Permanente kiosks for patient check-in and wanted to be sure and post. The savings for KP have been huge.
Google is embedding its search and summarization tools within a health record maintained by EHR vendor Meditech, a major player in the hospital software space, in a move that should significantly expand the tech giant’s healthcare reach.
The partnership, announced Tuesday at HIMSS’ annual healthcare conference, will embed some of Google’s clinical tools from its Care Studio product suite within Meditech’s web-based Expanse EHR. The goal is to give doctors a comprehensive, longitudinal view of patient’s data within their workflows, by pulling and organizing information from different systems.
Google and Meditech have already exchanged some data in the new partnership, but will start work on directly integrating Google’s tools in Expanse within the next 90 days, and are targeting to have the functionality operational for some hospital clients within six to nine months, Helen Waters, Meditech Expanse EVP and COO, told Healthcare Dive at HIMSS.
Let’s Talk Interactive, a leading provider of customizable telehealth solutions, has provided more than 160 schools, colleges and education organizations across Florida and throughout the U.S. with technology that connects students with physicians, counselors and other healthcare providers.
As School-Based Health Care Awareness Month continues, Let’s Talk Interactive has developed systems that proactively identify at-risk students and link them to support services that address their needs. In some regions, a custom case management portal helps track students throughout their treatment and ensures the necessary roles–from parents, to providers and administrators–are notified throughout the program.
These support services are needed more than ever. Studies by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show that the COVID-19 pandemic greatly increased rates of mental health issues in children and teenagers and amplified the need for counseling and support services.
Children diagnosed with the illness were nearly 30% more likely to develop a mental health condition, increasing the need for schools to provide counseling assistance, the agency found. Another federal study found emergency room visits in 2020 for mental health rose 24 percent among children and more than 30 percent for teenagers.
“At a time when we are more focused on than ever physical and mental needs of children, Let’s Talk Interactive is building on its track record of helping schools give students the healthcare access they need,” said Arthur Cooksey, founder and CEO of Let’s Talk Interactive.
In the wake of Hurricane Michael in 2020, Let’s Talk Interactive deployed telehealth kiosks and portals in schools in six counties in Florida’s Panhandle region. Working with regional health care organizations, Let’s Talk Interactive’s technology facilitated thousands of sessions for students who needed mental, acute and emergency care.
In 2021, Let’s Talk Interactive expanded that service with four more Panhandle counties, and Orange and Broward counties, two of Florida’s largest jurisdictions and expanded their school based services to other regions of the United States.
Let’s Talk Interactive’s telehealth platform fully complies with FERPA and HIPAA and provides licensed backup support network for school counselors and nurses, including speech and occupational therapists, licensed counselors and psychiatrists. To learn more about Let’s Talk Interactive, Inc., visit https://letstalkinteractive.com/.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) today introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act to begin the process of modernizing our outdated health privacy laws and regulations. The presence of technology companies is increasing in health care, and health information is expanding beyond the reach of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA is an over 25-year-old law that protects all interactions between patients and their doctors, but does not protect health data recorded on emerging technologies (cell phones, smart watches, etc.) which puts this data at significant potential risk.
This legislation forms a health and privacy commission to research and give official recommendation to Congress on how to modernize the use of health data and privacy laws to ensure patient privacy and trust while balancing the need of doctors to have information at their fingertips to provide care.
“As a doctor, the potential of new technology to improve patient care seems limitless. But Americans must be able to trust that their personal health data is protected if this technology can meet its full potential,” said Dr. Cassidy. “HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. This legislation starts this process on a pathway to make sure it is done right.”
“Folks across Wisconsin and the country are rightfully concerned about the security of their personal information, especially individual health care data, and it is time to give Americans better protection over these records,” said Senator Baldwin. “I am excited to introduce the bipartisan Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act to help inform how we can modernize health care privacy laws and regulations to give Americans peace of mind that their personal health information is safe, while ensuring that we have the tools we need to advance high-quality care.”
This legislation is supported by American College of Cardiology, Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness, Association of Clinical Research Organizations, athenahealth, Inc, Epic Systems Corporation, Executives for Health Innovation, Federation of American Hospitals, Heath Innovation Alliance, IBM, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Teladoc Health and United Spinal Association.
The Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act would establish a commission to –
Conduct a coordinated and comprehensive review and comparison of existing protections of personal health information at the state and federal level, as well as current practices for health data use by the health care, insurance, financial services, consumer electronics, advertising, and other industries;
Provide recommendations to Congress on whether federal legislation is needed to modernize health data privacy, and if so, how to do it; and
Be charged with submitting a report to Congress and the President six months after all members are appointed, and include 17 members to be appointed by the Comptroller General.
Specifically, the Commission is charged with drafting recommendations and conclusions on the following:
The potential threats posed to individual health privacy and legitimate business and policy interests.
The purposes for which sharing health information is appropriate and beneficial to consumers and the threat to health outcomes and costs if privacy rules are too stringent.
The effectiveness of existing statutes, regulations, private sector self-regulatory efforts, technology advances, and market forces in protecting individual health privacy.
Recommendations on whether federal legislation is necessary, and if so, specific suggestions on proposals to reform, streamline, harmonize, unify, or augment current laws and regulations relating to individual health privacy, including reforms or additions to existing law related to enforcement, preemption, consent, penalties for misuse, transparency, and notice of privacy practices.
Analysis of whether additional regulations may impose costs or burdens, or cause unintended consequences in other policy areas, such as security, law enforcement, medical research, health care cost containment, improved patient outcomes, public health or critical infrastructure protection, and whether such costs or burdens are justified by the additional regulations or benefits to privacy, including whether such benefits may be achieved through less onerous means.
The cost analysis of legislative or regulatory changes proposed in the report.
Recommendations on non-legislative solutions to individual health privacy concerns, including education, market-based measures, industry best practices, and new technologies.
Review of the effectiveness and utility of third-party statements of privacy principles and private sector self-regulatory efforts, as well as third-party certification or accreditation programs meant to ensure compliance with privacy requirements.
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Endorsement Letter
February 9, 2022
Senator Bill Cassidy
520 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Senator Tammy Baldwin
709 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senators Cassidy and Baldwin,
We write to thank you for your leadership in introducing the Health Data Use and Privacyv Commission Act. The Commission established by this bill will make recommendations to Congress to help modernize health data use and privacy policies to ensure clear, consistent, and reliable patient protections while simultaneously ensuring health data gets where it needs to go to improve care and outcomes.
As the nation continues to adopt new and evolving technologies that surround everyday life and digitize nearly every interaction we have, personal privacy has never been a more important issue for policymakers. Congress is considering comprehensive privacy reform – and we support
these efforts – but most of these conversations are focused on consumer technology and data.
Health data is either carved out of these proposals or included in a new category of “consumer health data” which could lead to many entities being subject to duplicative requirements. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) law that led to today’s HIPAA Privacy Rule was passed over 25 years ago, and while HIPAA is still functioning well, it does not address the growing concerns regarding third-party applications or other technologies accessing health data that fall outside of HIPAA’s reach. Providers, health plans, and other covered entities and their business associates covered by the Privacy Rule as well as the patients they serve need clarity and consistency in health data privacy and use rules.
Given the advancements Congress has made in improving the interoperability of health care information and systems, your efforts to ensure robust consideration of health care data and privacy through the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission will provide useful perspective to the ongoing privacy debate. Secure and private health information should not be the enemy of medical innovation, clinical process improvement, or public health response. Careful consideration of these issues by the commission will inform policy makers to achieve the necessary balance of data liquidity and confidentiality necessary for a highly functional and trusted health system.
According to the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), “state-level momentum for comprehensive privacy bills is at an all-time high.”1 The patchwork of proposals across all 50 states could lead to further complexity and compliance burdens. According to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, should all 50 states pass privacy legislation in the absence of a federal law, compliance costs “could exceed $1 trillion over 10 years, with at least $200 billion hitting small businesses.”2 All of this stresses the need for a federal law governing data privacy, and there are at least 24 proposals related to data privacy before the 117th Congress according to the IAPP.3
As Congress considers privacy reform, your privacy commission will add much needed recommendations specific to the future of health information privacy and use. This issue is far too important to the functioning of our health care system and the trust of patients to get wrong,
and we appreciate your thoughtful legislation to help get these policies right. We look forward to working with you on passing the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act into law.
Sincerely,
American College of Cardiology
Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness
Association of Clinical Research Organizations
athenahealth, Inc
Epic Systems Corporation
Executives for Health Innovation
Federation of American Hospitals
Heath Innovation Alliance
IBM
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Teladoc Health
United Spinal Association
Olea Kiosks is the largest provider of hospital and clinic patient check-in in the world. Recently they updated their Healthcare page and we are including it below to help inform and educate on patient check-in kiosk. Visit the Olea Kiosks Healthcare page for more information.
Healthcare kiosks can help you better manage the bottom line, allow you to allocate human resources to the most strategic and critical tasks, and protect your most important investments.
From optimizing patient check-in and payments to improving the patient experience, Olea’s healthcare kiosks can help facilities of all sizes take their care to the next level.
Benefits of our self service kiosks include:
Improve office efficiency
Increase revenue
Improve patient follow-through and health outcomes
Reduce missed appointments and cancelations
Enhance the patient check-in and experience
Maintain a safe work/business environment
Patient Check-in Olea
Patient Check-in Olea
Why Choose Olea Healthcare Kiosks?
Consumers are becoming more self-sufficient and empowered to access information wherever they are. At the same time, healthcare organizations are struggling to meet the increasing demands of their patients.
This is why many are turning to healthcare kiosks. The self service kiosk is a key piece of healthcare’s digital transformation that will assist in enhancing productivity, check-in, and the overall patient experience. Healthcare kiosks are not only able to fulfill the customer’s need for autonomy, but also decrease the effort administrative staff are required to invest in every patient check-in and interaction. Healthcare kiosks enhance the efficiency and care provided at your facility in many ways.
Most Common Kiosk Uses
Self service kiosks perform a variety of functions in healthcare, including the following:
Patient Check-in and Registration
Update personal data, scan and record insurance and ID cards
Fill out and update patient forms
Bill Collection
Patient Portal access to review tests and past visits
Telehealth services like monitoring, training, and healthcare education
Telemedicine services like management of chronic conditions and specialist consultations
Wayfinding, maps, directions, and general information
Patient Check-in Olea
Patient Check-in Olea
Enhanced Privacy for Patients with a Self Service Kiosk
Privacy is crucial during the patient check-in process and throughout the patient journey. Surveys show that most patients actually prefer self service kiosk options because they experience reduced wait times, a simple and consistent check-in process, and there is also an increased sense of privacy with patient check-in.
The kiosk streamlines the path to be seen by the healthcare professionals and provides a variety of related services all in one place. The kiosk allows the patient to quickly check-in, dispense with the mechanics of the visit, and prepare to be treated.
Digital Transformation for a Better Patient Check-In Process
Improving the patient experience is essential to any healthcare organization. The most critical parts of any trip to a healthcare provider are the treatment and the check-in process that puts the patient in queue to be seen. Often, those needing to see a doctor or undergo tests are ill or in a state of stress in anticipation of the exam or procedure. The patient check-in process should be as non-taxing and simple as possible, and the healthcare kiosk delivers this and more.
When a patient enters your healthcare clinic, office, lab, or medical facility, they come to the front desk first. With self-service check-in, their first stop will be the kiosk instead. They will be able to perform any check-in task they would have otherwise performed at the front desk. From scanning ID cards and insurance cards to updating personal information, check-in is simplified and hassle-free.
Features of the kiosk check-in process include:
Patients or their caregivers enter basic information on a touchscreen
Co-payments can be collected at the kiosk, or current balances remunerated
Scanners can reader driver’s licenses and insurance cards
All the while, staff who are no longer responsible for checking in patients can provide other services to further enrich or expedite the entire experience of their visit
How Kiosks Benefit Employees and Patients
Not only does self check-in enhance the customer experience for patients, but it also improves employee satisfaction. A self service kiosk frees up employees to focus on what’s really important – patient care and satisfaction. This includes more time to focus on greeting patients, answering questions, completing paperwork, processing insurance information, answering phones, and scheduling appointments.
With a kiosk solution, your team will have more time to finish the tasks that deliver optimal care and a better patient experience, which leads to increased accuracy, reduction in errors, and less time spent trying to catch up. This all leads to increased employee satisfaction simply by leveraging the convenience of a kiosk.
Temperature Screening Kiosks Reduce Your Risk
Using a kiosk to conduct temperature checks on employees and visitors prior to entering the building allows healthcare facilities to minimize the risk to employees, patients, and their facilities. Temperature screening kiosks can help stem a crisis and optimize your ability to continue servicing your community.
With aesthetically pleasing design, robust construction, and contactless operation, temperature screening kiosks let your employees and patients know you are doing all you can to protect them.
Benefits of Olea’s temperature screening kiosks include:
Reduces the risk of access by infected visitors and patients
Maintains a safer patient check-in and facility environment
Facilitates a safer and more efficient process than using a human resource to screen temperatures
Minimizes stress and anxiety for employees and guests during check-in
Take Your Care to the Next Level with Healthcare Kiosks
Improving the patient experience is the top priority of a healthcare facility. This goes above and beyond the care they receive by the medical staff and extends to all areas of customer satisfaction. A visit to a healthcare professional is stressful enough. The simplest part of the visit should remain just that: simple. And a kiosk makes it happen.
Check-in and telemedicine kiosks are an effective way to boost your services, increase revenue, reduce wait time, streamline records and patient information gathering, and give your staff more time to perform the tasks that are most important. It’s time to take your care to the next level with the right healthcare kiosks for your facility.
Achieve a Seamless Patient Journey with Self Service Kiosks
The patient journey should be as frictionless as possible. In order to deliver that experience, there has to be close collaboration between the physical and digital channels along with innovation in building omnichannel capabilities. Whether the person is interacting with you from a desktop or mobile device, by kiosk, telephone, or a brick-and-mortar point, it must be seamless.
Patients want healthcare providers to consider the following ways of enhancing convenience:
Minimize waiting times
Manage queues/wait time effectively
Reduce ambiguity–explain exactly what they need to do next at all points in their patient check-in and overall journey
Make their time investment feel worth it
The smart use of self service kiosks is also designed to speed up otherwise labor-intensive aspects of the patient journey and helps to remove other inefficiencies to benefit both the patient and your healthcare organization.
Self Service Kiosk That Matches Your Brand
Today, the standard designs available for the self service kiosk can be highly customized to showcase your brand. Whether indoor or outdoor, custom kiosk design is one of Olea’s core capabilities. Show your patients just how important they are with a custom kiosk design that leverages technology to enhance the patient experience.
Olea has the self-service applications your Healthcare facility needs to
enhance the patient experience and the bottom line.
Las Vegas, Nevada., Jan. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO) (CSE: DPRO) (FSE: 3U8) (“Draganfly” or the “Company”), an award-winning, industry-leading drone solutions and systems developer, is pleased to announce the release of the Company’s new Vital Intelligence Smart Vital Kiosk (the “Kiosk”).
Powered by Draganfly’s groundbreaking AI Vital Intelligence platform, the Kiosk can screen, with voluntary consent, temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation (SpO2) in seconds. The system does not register any personal data of the individual being screened.
Draganfly’s Smart Vital system is part of the Company’s Vital Intelligence health and safety solution, which is able to screen, detect, assess, protect and provide continuous action against the potential threat of infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
Featuring a highly customizable camera configuration, the Kiosk can effectively meet the needs of specific events. Accessories such as QR and IR code readers can be incorporated to provide seamless integration with vaccine passports, security badges and other ticketing systems.
The Kiosk’s 22” LCD screen is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and it’s Forward Looking InfraRed (FLIR) thermal camera adheres to the guidelines set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Designed to be versatile, the Kiosk can be secured in a certain area or safely wheeled to a new location.
“We are committed to providing seamless and non-invasive solutions that allow organizations to host safe events and gatherings. Utilizing proprietary software built by Draganfly, the new Smart Vital Kiosk enables multi-dimensional screening of core vitals to provide real-time health insights in seconds,” said Paul Mullen, Vice President of Vital Intelligence at Draganfly.
“Draganfly’s Vital Intelligence platform has been a game-changer for established brands such as the Drone Racing League, Alabama State University, Barrett-Jackson Auto Auctions and many more. Our new Smart Vital Kiosk is a massive step towards ensuring that people always feel safe and confident wherever they are,” said Cameron Chell, CEO of Draganfly.
Babylon closed its acquisition of Higi, a startup that allows people to check their blood pressure, weight, body mass index and other health markers at kiosks located in supermarkets, pharmacies and other retailers, according to a news release Wednesday.
Babylon already owned about a quarter of the company after leading a $30 million funding round for Higi in 2020. But the digital health giant decided to buy out the rest of the company last month, acquiring the remaining equity for $4.9 million in cash and nearly four million in Babylon Class A ordinary shares and two million in restricted stock units, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company hopes the combination will make its symptom-checking chatbot and other services more appealing to buyers.
View a list of PatientTrak integrations and software that integrates with PatientTrak below. Compare the best PatientTrak integrations as well as features, ratings, user reviews, and pricing of software that integrates with PatientTrak. Here are the current PatientTrak integrations in 2021:
EpicCare EMR
Epic Systems
Help improve your patients’ health and care with EpicCare. Screens, workflows and specialty applications are fast, flexible and can be personalized. Predictive analytics and embedded decision support tools support clinical practice to yield better outcomes. Common tasks are streamlined to get the job done fast. Mobile apps keep you connected wherever you go. Recruit study participants more quickly; conduct independent research and incorporate your findings into clinical care. Rated by healthcare providers as the best acute and best ambulatory EMR for physician productivity and effectiveness. Flexible and pre-built content for specialties lets you focus on care. Made up of experts in their fields, specialty steering boards contribute content and guide development to meet real-world specialty needs.
Managing clinic operations across registration, scheduling, patient tracking, patient accounting and reporting through one comprehensive workflow. Integration between Cerner’s EHR and Cerner Practice Management allow your organization to easily navigate across all capabilities in the solutions, schedule appointments and collect payments on all patient accounts through a single platform. Verify expected reimbursements and manage any variances and denials right within your workflow. Connect clinical and financial information and automate utilization management, clinical documentation improvement and discharge care management within Cerner’s EHR. Electronically monitor, support and manage health information of all types for a comprehensive, secure medical record. Get complete and accurate information at the point of service to help manage your cash flow. Integrate people, process and technology, to help improve workflow efficiencies, meet organization metrics and control cost to collect.
Is HL7 interface development becoming a problem for your organization? Does it take weeks or even months to complete an interface? When faced with similar challenges, many leading laboratories, hospitals, government institutions and EHR providers made the move to eTransX. They’re now using eTX HEMI (Healthcare Enterprise Messaging and Integration) to reduce the cost and complexity of developing, testing and monitoring their interfaces. eTX HEMI is ONC Meaningful Use Certified. eTransX is a leading provider of healthcare integration technology. Our integration engine is being used by countless healthcare organizations include hospitals, laboratories, ACOs, small and critical access hospitals, vendors/integrators. eTransX is a rapidly growing software and services company providing comprehensive application integration solutions that are helping to simplify the exchange of electronic healthcare data like never before.
Allscripts Professional EHR™ is the preeminent platform of clinical, operational, financial and wellness solutions for small to mid-size physician practices, ACOs, PCMHs and FQHCs, for safer patient care, streamlined operations and improved revenue. Designed by and influenced by clinicians, Professional EHR is a user-friendly, configurable solution.
With MEDITECH’s Cloud Platform, organizations of any size can extend and enhance their Expanse EHR to include multiple specialties, connect remote sites, and protect patient data. Maintain easy and convenient communication with your community (even at a distance) with Expanse Virtual Care and our Patient and Consumer Health Portal. And give your providers the data they need during unexpected downtime, with High Availability SnapShot. If there’s one thing care teams need when tackling population health, it’s clarity. With MEDITECH Expanse Population Health, you’ll have the tools you need to get a clear picture of your patient populations — who they are, where they’ve been, and where they’re going. And you’ll have the functionality to support individual patients and help them manage health risks at every stage of life — no matter where their care journey takes them.
Striving to increase profitability, enhance operational efficiency and improve compliance for your business? Look no further than the nation’s most reliable pharmacy connectivity network. Better drug adherence rates. Increased clinical services. A more efficient operation. And better patient outcomes. Workflow connectivity is within reach for specialty, outpatient, and retail pharmacies, as well as physicians, payers, PBMs and biopharma companies. RelayHealth Pharmacy Solutions is proud to manage the nation’s most reliable pharmacy network. What does that mean for you? It means that every year, we power more than 18 billion (yes, billion) pharmacy transactions. It also means we connect key healthcare stakeholders with more than 50,000 U.S. retail pharmacies.
GE Healthcare is a software company and offers a software title called Centricity EMR. Centricity EMR offers training via documentation and webinars. Centricity EMR is electronic medical records (EMR) software, and includes features such as E-Prescribing, meaningful use certified, compliance tracking, and self service portal. With regards to system requirements, Centricity EMR is available as Windows software. Centricity EMR includes online support. Some alternative products to Centricity EMR include TRAKnet, DrChrono, and Quanum EHR.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Medicare program provided temporary waivers increasing telehealth flexibility for the duration of the public health emergency (PHE). There are numerous issues for policy makers to address as they consider permanent expansion of these Medicare waivers when the pandemic ends. The goal of this report is to provide information for these policy considerations by analyzing trends in Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiary use of telehealth compared to in-person visits in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic and in 2020 during the pandemic
The study, released Friday (PDF) by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), comes as advocates are pressing to make key flexibilities the federal government enabled at the start of the pandemic to be permanent. Even as telehealth use increased, there was still a decrease in Part B visits to doctors’ offices.
The number of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiary telehealth visits increased 63-fold in 2020, from approximately 840,000 in 2019 to nearly 52.7 million in 2020.
Despite the increase in telehealth visits during the pandemic, total utilization of all Medicare FFS Part B clinician visits declined about 11% in 2020 compared to levels in 2019.
Most beneficiaries (92%) received telehealth visits from their homes, which was not permissible in Medicare prior to the pandemic.
Prior to the pandemic, telehealth made up less than 1% of visits across all visit specialties but increased substantially in 2020. Telehealth increased to 8% of primary care visits, while specialty care had smallest shift towards telehealth (3% of specialist visits).
Visits to behavioral health specialists showed the largest increase in telehealth in 2020. Telehealth comprised a third of total visits to behavioral health specialists. While data limitations preclude clear identification of audio-only telehealth services, up to 70% of these telehealth visits during 2020 were potentially reimbursable for audio-only services.
Black and rural beneficiaries had lower use of telehealth compared with White and urban beneficiaries, respectively. Telehealth use varied by state, with higher use in the Northeast and West, and lower in the Midwest and South.
