The Role of Telemedicine in The Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the American Healthcare Act(AHCA) are a watershed in the US public health policy (Selker et al 24). The act establishes the basic legal protections, a near universal guarantee access to affordable healthcare insurance coverage from birth through retirement. The insurance coverage also helps individuals and families who do not have an affordable employee coverage or another form of “minimum essential coverage” such as Medicare or Medicaid.
Issues related to the evaluation and definition of telemedicine are articulated as a basis for conducting theoretically based, empirically sound, and policy-relevant evaluation. Telemedicine is conceived of an integrated system of healthcare delivery that employs telecommunications and computer technology as a substitute for a face-to-face contact between provider and client (Norbash et al 34). Under each proposal it has the potential for ameliorating seemingly intractable problems in healthcare such as limited access to care among segments in the population- especially the geographically disadvantaged – uneven quality of care and cost inflation. Its true merit has yet to be determined by systematic empirical study.
Efforts to build a national health informational infrastructure (NHII) and supporting date standards must must address the need of clinical research (DeMartini 4). Clinical research as defined by the National Institute of Health (NIH) is patient-oriented research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin that can be linked to an individual). The most intriguing part is the the NIH policy on the sharing of research data is bringing forth questions about how data should be presented for data sharing, and making the need for clinical research data standards critical and immediate.
Works Cited
DeMartini, Frank. ""American Health Care Act."" A Hollywood Republican. (2017): 2017-3. Print.
Norbash, A, D Hindson, and J Heineke. ""The Accountable Health Care Act of Massachusetts: Mixed Results for an Experiment in Universal Health Care Coverage."" Journal of the American College of Radiology: Jacr. 9.10 (2012): 734-9. Print.
Selker, Harry P, and June S. Wasser. The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment: Health Policy Innovations and Lessons. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. Print.
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