Just a few years ago—an eternity in the IT universe—telehealth was something of an oddity, a fringe technology that wasn’t well understood. Its advancement languished. Despite a proven ability to bridge geographical divides separating healthcare providers and patients, the delivery of care via telehealth fell short of demand. Today, telehealth has become a foundational technology in healthcare, propelled to new levels of relevance by practical considerations: spiraling healthcare costs, growing demand for healthcare by an aging population, and a pandemic that normalized remote work. There is more to be done. Although telehealth is no longer on the fringe, it hasn’t yet attained its full potential as a driver of efficient healthcare delivery. For that to happen, federal telehealth will require changes in policy, advancements in technology, and improvements in the way patients and healthcare workers access telehealth—and each other.

This panel will explore the current state of telehealth in the federal space and identify critical next steps for expanding and maturing the government’s use of telehealth technology.

Potential topics include:

• Highlighting key federal telehealth technologies.
• Sharing use cases to illustrate effective collaboration of government-industry partnerships.
• Reviewing federal telehealth’s development, including relevant policy changes, progress to date, and opportunities for continued growth.
• Identifying investments in tools, technologies, and skillsets—by industry and government—that are needed to improve the functionality of telehealth and to make it available to more U.S. citizens.

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