The Uphill Climb To Virtual Care

It's been quite a month for the whole concept of telehealth and virtual care.

At the national level, the Washington insider publication Roll Call (see New Congress, New Push for Telemedicine) reported that Mississippi Republican Greg Harper led a bipartisan effort in support of a telemedicine bill in the last Congress, and is now discussing the development of new telehealth legislation for this year. And there was a cover story in U.S. News & World Report – Telepsychiatry: the New Frontier in Mental Health.

At the state level, a telehealth bill is moving through the Colorado legislature (see Is . . .