Educational Resources
Below are links to additional telehealth resources. There are general materials broadly applicable to telehealth, followed by resources specific to behavioral health, coding, privacy and security, quality metrics, rural issues and state issues.
General
- AARP: Views on Telehealth, June 2020
- Academy Health: Health Systems Respond to COVID-19: Priorities for Rapid-Cycle Evaluations
- Aledade COVID-19 Telehealth Toolkit
- Aledade Getting Started with Telehealth GuideÂ
- America’s Physician Groups (APG) COVID-19 Resources
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Telehealth Support
- American College of Rheumatology Telemedicine Position Statement
- American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Telemedicine Toolkit
- American Medical Association (AMA) Telehealth Implementation Playbook
- American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
- APG COVID-19 Case Studies in Excellence Webinar
- ASPE: Medicare Beneficiary Use of Telehealth Visits: Early Data from the Start of the Covid-19 Pandemic 7-28-20
- ATA’s Quick-Start Guide to Telehealth During a Health Crisis
- Avalere COVID-19 Intel Center: Provider Impact of COVID-19 Telehealth Policies by Specialty
- Center for Connected Health Policy
- Cleveland Clinic COVID-19 Response Digital Health Playbook
- CMS Administrator Verma Health Affairs: Early Impact Of CMS Expansion Of Medicare Telehealth During COVID-19
- CMS General Provider Telehealth and Telemedicine Tool Kit 
- CMS: List of Telehealth Services
- Commonwealth: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Outpatient Visits: Practices Are Adapting to the New Normal
- Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) Guiding Principles on Virtual Care
- ECHO Institute TeleECHO Programs
- Freakonomics ‘The Doctor Will Zoom You Now’ podcast (54 min.)
- Healthcare Communities: Telehealth Community
- HealthIT.gov: Telemedicine and Telehealth
- National Telehealth Policy Resource Center
- NCQA Blog: Telemedicine Resources During COVID-19 
- NextGen’s ‘Eliminate the Waiting Room’
-  ONC’s Designing The Consumer-Centered Telehealth &  eVisit Experience: Considerations for the Future of Consumer Healthcare White Paper
- PCDC Covid-19 & Telemedicine Technical Assistance
- PCMH Transformation and COVID -19 – Addressing the Changing Health Needs of Our Most Vulnerable Patients
- Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC): COVID-19 & Telemedicine Technical Assistance 
- The Playbook: Deploying Virtual Care During COVID-19 and Beyond
- Telehealth Access, Value & Equity: COVID-19 and Beyond
Behavioral
- American Counseling Association – Counseling in a Time of COVID-19
- National Board of Certified Counselors COVID-19 Information
- American Psychiatric Association Telepsychiatry Tool Kit
- American Psychological Association (APA): Tip Sheet: Telehealth and Persons with Disabilities: What Psychologists Should Know
- Telebehavioral Health Institute
- Telemental Health Guide
- Telemental Health Institute
Coding
- American College of Physicians Telehealth Coding & Billing 
- American Medical Association Coding for Telemedicine and COVID webinar
Privacy and Security
- AHRQ Easy-to-Understand Telehealth Consent Form
- AHRQ How to Obtain Consent for Telehealth
- AHRQ Sample Telehealth Consent Form
- HHS HIPAA and COVID-19
Quality Metrics
- NCQA Telehealth HEDIS Updates 6-5-20
- National Quality Forum’s Creating a Framework to Support Measure Development for Telehealth
Rural
States
- Alliance for Connected Care State Licensure Expansion COVID-19 Dashboard  
- AMA Cross-state Telemedicine Licensing
- Center for Connected Health Policy: Current State Laws & Reimbursement Policies
- Federation of State Medical Boards Model Telehealth Policy
- Federation of State Medical Boards Telemedicine Policies by State
- National Academy for State Health Policy: How State Medicaid Programs Can Use Telehealth to Serve Pregnant Women during COVID-19
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