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— Ruth Bader Ginsberg
To effectively evaluate allegations of wrongdoing that may be generated by external or internal sources, health care providers and their vendors often will need to conduct internal investigations. In-house legal counsel often may be ill equipped and ill-prepared to conduct such an internal investigation. However, with some forethought and planning, health care providers and vendors can develop the team needed to conduct an effective internal investigation.
With Florida's demographics changing and health care provider shortages on the rise, telemedicine enables patients who are in remote areas of Florida or who do not have access to specialists to obtain services. While the current Florida landscape does not currently support substantive expansion of telemedicine services, given the fact that the percentage of individuals over the age of 65 will increase more than 24 percent by the year 2030 and telehealth could reduce costs by more than $1 billion, momentum in favor of telemedicine has been building over the past few years. Cost savings and economic development opportunities have lead policymakers to spearhead efforts to remove barriers to telehealth through proposed legislation.
This year the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association’s Annual Summit is addressing the question of “Competing Priorities? Community Health vs. Provider Health.” One of the Summit’s sessions focuses on “Telemetry, Telemedicine & Telehealth.” This topic reflects the recognition that the adoption of digital devices and communications in the delivery of health care items and services is a growing fact of the professional lives of physicians and other health care practitioners.