Government health care policy-makers are discussing ways to expand incentives for health care providers to use telemedicine applications and systems.
Members of the American Health Information Community (AHIC)'s chronic care workgroup met to try to amend rules that allow providers of remote health care to be reimbursed by Medicare only if they work in specific geographic areas and clinical settings.
Access to remote health care -- or telemedicine -- has increased with the expanded use of health information technology. Now policymakers are developing recommendations to better define the term, or eliminate it all together, because of those strict limitations. | 
