Telehealth Considerations for Medical Device Manufacturers During and After COVID-19

27/Apr/2021 Articles No Comments

A deep dive into how COVID-19 has forced many healthcare providers to adopt telehealth solutions, and some legal considerations for manufacturers.

Telehealth (i.e., the use of telecommunications technology to deliver health services remotely) has long promised to revolutionize the healthcare industry by dramatically improving access to, and the efficiency of, healthcare. Despite high expectations, an onerous web of overlapping federal and state rules and requirements, lack of consistent payor coverage, and industry inertia had, prior to COVID-19, prevented widespread adoption of telehealth as a primary means of providing care.

With the arrival of COVID-19, however, healthcare providers were forced quickly into digital care. While state and federal regulators have worked swiftly to ease restrictions on telemedicine (the subset of telehealth services that consists of remote delivery of direct clinical care), major fraud and abuse risks remain for telehealth providers and for the medical device manufacturers that rely on telehealth to facilitate access to their products. It remains to be seen, moreover, whether widespread use of telehealth will continue after COVID-19 recedes and regulatory waivers expire.

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Telehealth Considerations for Medtech Manufacturers