New Jersey Receives $2.3 Million for Pediatric Mental Health Services
This past week it was announced that the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), along with the Nicholson Foundation, awarded the New Jersey State Department of Health $2.3 million to expand access to their Pediatric Psychiatry Collective (PPC)...
Road to Reimbursement: Location
Reimbursement policies usually present more of a challenge to telemedicine adoption than technology or training. Healthcare providers have reported high interest in offering remote care for their patients but question whether it makes good business sense if they...
Moonshot Interview with StartUp Health
Startup Health is an incubator and investing network “organizing a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots”. SimpleVisit is proud to be among the select “Health Transformer” utilizing our unique technology to improve access to care in the...
A New Year for Telehealth
As we embark on a new year, we at SimpleVisit thought it would be good to look back at what has happened in the telehealth industry throughout 2018 and what is on the horizon for 2019. State Legislation In 2018, 65 legislative bills and 49 regulations were passed that...
A Season of Sharing & Caring: 5 Ways Telehealth Promotes the Spirit of Christmas
As Christmas Eve is upon us, and we try to ignore the commercials and ads encouraging us to buy just one more thing to add to the mountain under the tree, we here at SimpleVisit having been thinking about what Christmas really means to us. And since we are in the...
Google Hangouts is Changing!
The Google Hangouts mobile app is scheduled to be suspended in 2020 making way for more user-specific applications made by Google. This means 2019 is the last year to use the Hangouts app on mobile devices. While the Google Hangouts browser extension will remain...
The Road to Reimbursement: Licensing
Over 70% of health systems signaled support of implementing telehealth services during a 2017 survey by the Center for Connected Medicine and The Health Management Academy. This same survey found, however, that only 10% of total health care was actively utilizing...
New Group Shakes Up Medicaid Connected Care
A new non-profit group launched officially on November 13 during the Fall Conference from the National Association of Medicaid Directors. This group has named themselves HealthTech4Medicaid (HT4M), and states that their mission is to “further improve quality and...
5 Reasons to be Thankful for Telemedicine
As we are all recovering from stuffing ourselves with turkey and pie and families are enjoying a chance to gather for this uniquely American holiday, we here at SimpleVisit would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! To celebrate, we want to share with you the top 5...
[Feature Update] SimpleVisit Online Schedule
Introducing Updates to our Online Scheduling FeatureStep 1: Select Your Time Zone The first step is to select the time zone in which you are located. This will then launch the calendar showing the appropriate hours of operation.Step 2: Select Appointment Date and...