On this episode of CANCER BUZZ, learn how healthcare providers and policymakers can work together to pave the future of telehealth beyond the current public health emergency.

On this episode of CANCER BUZZ, learn how genetic healthcare services have adapted to virtual care delivery, and what challenges face its widespread use after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

On this episode of CANCER BUZZ, learn the telehealth regulatory and policy changes enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, what may change in 2021, and what’s likely to remain the same regarding the reimbursement of remote care.

The ACCC 47th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit, March 1 – 5, 2021, was a fully virtual experience that delivered a focused look at the hot-button issues impacting your cancer program today, and the strategies you’ll need to emerge positioned for success tomorrow--including telehealth.

In this episode of CANCER BUZZ TV, learn from an experienced cancer center information technology (IT) professional about how the role of the IT professional in quality, patient-centered cancer care delivery, and what lies ahead.

In light of physical distancing and public safety recommendations, research programs have made significant adjustments, including virtual approaches to site selection and data collection and increased use of telehealth services.This webinar discusses the impact of COVID-19 on cancer research protocols and patients’ experiences, including a look at how current adaptations can be made more sustainable in post-pandemic research.

This article will help providers determine clinical trial opportunties for their patients and demonstrate how to identify the best trial options virtually.

This webinar discussed highlights of the Interim Final Rule to help people stay on top of changes to telehealth billing and coding during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as answered questions from participants.

Speakers discussed the most important strategies for planning, building, and implementing a telehealth program, and how to get buy-in at your cancer program or practice. You’ll hear first-hand experiences and lessons learned for successfully implementing a telehealth program quickly and efficiently.

Learn about ACCC's telehealth initiatives on this webpage.

In the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, many small medical practices, community hospitals, federally-specialty practices, qualified health centers, rural health clinics, critical access hospitals, mental health practitioners, and veterinarians face the challenge of quickly establishing telehealth services. Rising to the challenge, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) freely offers this Quick-Start Guide to Telehealth to anyone who needs it.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of in-person visits may have flattened the curve, but it’s made it more difficult to screen for preventative cancers. Screenings like mammograms and colonoscopies have dropped dramatically, so much so that one report estimates it could translate into 80,000 fewer diagnoses of cancer for patients, having “a significant impact on the timely initiation of treatment for treatable cancers.” In this blog post, learn how a combination of CancerIQ’s precision health platform and telehealth helped catch cancer early.

This article reviews the current experience and the flaws encountered in the rush to deploy telemedicine as a substitute for in-person care in response to the raging coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic; the preceding fault lines in the U.S. health care system that exacerbated the problem; and the importance of emerging from this calamity with a clear vision for necessary health care reforms.

The California Telehealth Resource Center (CTRC) offers no-cost, unbiased training and educational resources that help California providers and patients get the most from telehealth. We create lasting change and improvement by focusing on implementation, sustainability, reimbursement and policy, integration, workflows, and patient/provider adoption.