Why Children’s Health Acted Fast to Integrate Telemedicine in Texas

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Children’s Health was instrumental in laying the groundwork for telemedicine in Texas.

When the pediatric health system started to seek out virtual care, the Texas State Medical Board still required that patient-physician relationships be established with an in-person visit before telemedicine could be used.

In this whitepaper, Julie Hall-Barrow, EdD, Vice President of Virtual Health and Innovation at Children’s Health, discusses how the health system helped change legislation for telemedicine in Texas, and how it was able to implement successful telehealth use cases for cystic fibrosis, substance abuse and more

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