Native American tribes and organizations have been seeking coronavirus data ever since the spring — only to face barriers and difficulties from federal and state officials
that would codify Medicare's telehealth reimbursement for safety net clinics. “Access to telehealth has become more than just a convenience, but rather a critical necessity in America,” Butterfield said in a news release.UVA's Karen Rheuban, American Telemedicine Association President Joseph Kvedar, Project Echo's Sanjeev Arora, and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's Andrea Willis will testify before the Senate HELP committee on the pandemic's lessons for telehealth.
... “Apple and Google’s incentive is to look like the good guys, related to the protection of privacy. That’s not a public health goal,” said Jeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Kahn said the companies have done little to address states’ concerns that they won’t get the data they need; several public health experts have argued that GPS location data, which would allow them to identify hotspots, would be more useful.
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