Telehealth and value-based care — with Dr. Andrew Watson

On today's HIMSSCast, we welcome Dr. Andrew Watson, medical director of telehealth for the UPMC health plan, and Susan Morse, Healthcare Finance News managing editor, to discuss the link between telehealth and value-based care: how new payment models can enable adoption of telehealth and how technologies like telehealth can push the industry towards new payment models, as well as the extent to which both of these things have happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.This podcast is part of our Workplace Re-entry series and is brought to you by Zoom for Healthcare. It is a companion piece to this HIMSS TV episode with Danielle Louder.Talking points:Does value-based care make payment parity irrelevant?Telehealth after COVID-19Telehealth is more than video visitsHow technology is driving us toward value-based careHow telehealth and value-based care are working at UPMCHow UPMC uses telehealth for urgent careThe utilization question and supply-induced demandThe future of reimbursementHow telehealth adoption post-COVID is goingTelehealth and behavioral healthAdvice for value-based care implementationMore about this episode:Future of telehealth for health systems depends on infrastructure and analyticsValue-based care gains traction during COVID-19CMS announces a new value-based payment model for rural healthcare providersHIMSSCast: The future of telehealth reimbursementTelehealth is expected to drive $29 billion in healthcare services in 2020athenahealth's VP predicts more value-based care, investor interest and an evening out of telehealth in 2021