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Virtual Healthcare Provides Savings

The Indiana Chamber has long been a strong advocate of using technology, like virtual care, to help offset rising healthcare costs. A new report has shed light on how much those savings are. Solera Health recently announced results from a recent study comparing virtual health care costs to in-person care. The study reveals that transitioning care from physical locations [...]

2024-11-07T13:44:09-05:00November 7th, 2024|

GUEST BLOG: Hamilton Center Sees Positive Trends in Telehealth Utilization

Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported that telehealth interactions had increased from 9% prior to the pandemic to 51%, during quarantine. Similarly, the CDC reported a 50% increase in telehealth services during the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same period of 2019. The vast majority of those cases were unrelated to [...]

2021-02-26T12:44:23-05:00February 26th, 2021|

Senate Committee Passes $100 Million Broadband Proposal

Senate Bill 377 (Broadband Development), authored by Sen. Andy Zay (R-Huntington), establishes the Indiana broadband expansion fund for deposit and distribution of federal broadband funding and calls for an appropriation of $100,000,000 to the fund, which will be distributed proportionally to the (1) rural broadband fund (60%), (2) the connectivity program (30%) and (3) the adoption program (10%). (1) [...]

2021-02-25T17:18:08-05:00February 19th, 2021|

Hamilton Center: Telehealth Utilization on the Rise, Likely Here to Stay; Sees Positive Trends (Terre Haute)

Earlier this year, the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) reported that telehealth interactions had increased from nine percent, prior to the pandemic, to 51 percent, during quarantine. Similarly, the CDC recently reported a 50 percent increase in telehealth services during the first quarter of 2020, compared to the same period of 2019. The vast majority of those cases [...]

2021-02-10T13:53:20-05:00February 4th, 2021|