CMS Releases Telehealth Toolkits

Healthcare workers using telehealth tools

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released two comprehensive toolkits on telehealth–one specific to general practitioners, and one for providers treating patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Each toolkit contains links to help providers learn about the general concept of telehealth, choose telemedicine vendors, initiate a telemedicine program, monitor patients remotely, and develop documentation tools. Toolkits also provide information on temporary virtual services that could be used to treat patients during this specific period of time.

Access the Telehealth Toolkit for General Practitioners: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/general-telemedicine-toolkit.pdf

Access the end-stage renal disease providers toolkit: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/esrd-provider-telehealth-telemedicine-toolkit.pdf