Telemedicine barriers associated with regional quality Measures

Frederick North; Sarah J. Crane; Paul Y. Takahashi; William J. Ward; Sidna M. Tulledge-Scheitel; Karen Ytterberg; Eric G. Tangalos; Robert J. Stroebel

doi:10.1089/tmj.2013.0167

Telemedicine barriers associated with regional quality Measures

Frederick North, Sarah J. Crane, Paul Y. Takahashi, William J. Ward, Sidna M. Tulledge-Scheitel, Karen Ytterberg, Eric G. Tangalos, Robert J. Stroebel

Primary Care Internal Medicine

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Telemedicine practitioners are familiar with multiple barriers to delivering care at a distance. Licensing and reimbursement barriers are well known and are being addressed at national and state levels by the American Telemedicine Association. Another telemedicine barrier comes in the form of quality measures for diabetes. Minnesota medical practices are currently being compared on the proportion of their patients with diabetes who have attained goals for blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and hemoglobin A1C. The quality measure for blood pressure specifically excludes measurements taken by the patient, thus precluding blood pressure telemonitoring as a way to meet the blood pressure goal. To counter this barrier, advocacy in telemedicine is needed so that telemonitoring as a data collection tool is included in quality measures.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	179-181
Number of pages	3
Journal	Telemedicine and e-Health
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2013.0167
State	Published - Feb 1 2014

Keywords

e-health
policy
telemedicine

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health Informatics
Health Information Management

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