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The ATA connects you to the people, insights, and practical resources shaping virtual care. Explore exclusive research, implementation frameworks, best practices, educational content, and real-world insights from leaders across the virtual care ecosystem—all designed to help you move ideas into action.
ATA Telehealth & Virtual Care Taxonomy
This taxonomy provides a standardized set of definitions for telehealth, virtual care, and technology-enabled health services. Telehealth effectively connects individuals and their healthcare providers when in-person care is not necessary or not possible, enabling patients to receive care, consult with clinicians, obtain diagnoses, manage conditions, arrange prescriptions, and access health information remotely.
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Practice Guidelines
The ATA’s Principles for Delivering Telerehabilitation Services - REVISED
August 26, 2026
ATA TeleRehabilitation SIG
ATA TeleRehabilitation SIG
This document is a revision of the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) Principles for Delivering Telerehabilitation Services (2017) and reflects the current utilization of telerehabilitation services.
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The Role of Digital Health in Strategic Decision-Making
August 26, 2026
ATA Digital Transformation SIG
ATA Digital Transformation SIG
This paper is designed to support healthcare executives and clinical leaders in understanding the strategic landscape that surrounds digital health
adoption, identifying key barriers to transformation, and building the governance structures necessary to move from vision to execution.
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Using the Digital Governance Toolkit for Your Health System
August 26, 2026
ATA Digital Transformation SIG
ATA Digital Transformation SIG
This toolkit provides context for the specific elements of a virtual care governance structure to support digital and virtual health leaders in applying the Virtual Care governance toolkit in their own organization
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Enabling Care Where It’s Needed
August 26, 2026
Logitech
Logitech
In 2020, Remote Area Medical (RAM) expanded its approach by launching a telehealth program. What started as a response to the pandemic has since developed into a hybrid care model that combines mobile medical units, on-site nurses, and remote volunteer physicians.
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From Smart Rooms to Smart Flow: Designing Virtual Care for Access and Capacity
August 26, 2026
ATA & AvaSure
ATA & AvaSure
From Smart Rooms to Smart Flow: Designing Virtual Care for Access and Capacity explored how health systems are using virtual care environments to expand access, improve patient flow, and make better use of hospital capacity.
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Policy and Reimbursement Strategies to Improve Patient Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics
August 26, 2026
In their new article in npj Digital Medicine (Nature Portfolio), ATA's Andy Molnar and Lani Reilly highlight how outdated reimbursement policies are creating barriers, and why timely policy action, including a dedicated Medicare benefit, is critical to expanding access, reducing costs, and driving equitable, patient-centered digital care.
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How to Advance Your Virtual Care Journey & Measure Success
August 26, 2026
AvaSure
Real-World Results from Hackensack Meridian Health
AvaSure
Real-World Results from Hackensack Meridian Health
As virtual care matures, the question is no longer whether it works, but how it works best across different environments—and how success should be measured. Real-world results matter, even early in the journey. Early signals for clinicians—like reduced readmissions or less time spent on charting—can be powerful indicators of long-term financial impact.
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Practice Guidelines for Telemental Health with Children and Adolescents
August 26, 2026
ATA Telemental Health SIG
ATA Telemental Health SIG
This document provides a clinical guideline for the delivery of child and adolescent mental health and behavioral services by a licensed health care provider through real time videoconferencing.
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Practice Guidelines for Telestroke
August 26, 2026
The telestroke guidelines assist practitioners in providing assessment, diagnosis, management, and/or remote consultative support to patients exhibiting symptoms and signs consistent with an acute stroke syndrome, using telemedicine communication technologies.
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Practice Guidelines for Teleburn Care
August 26, 2026
These guidelines cover the provision of medical and related healthcare services using telecommunications technologies between patients and their providers as well as among providers (practitioners and specialists) for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with burn injuries.
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Practice Guidelines for Live, On Demand Primary and Urgent Care
August 26, 2026
These guidelines cover the provision of direct-to-patient, primary and urgent care services delivered by licensed health care providers using online, real-time videoconferencing and audio technologies.
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Clinical Guidelines for Telepathology
August 26, 2026
This document is an update to the original ATA telepathology guideline and provides new and updated guidance on specific applications, practice, benefits, limitations, and regulatory issues that may arise in the practice of telepathology.
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Guidelines for TeleICU Operations
August 26, 2026
The TeleICU Guidelines were developed to assist practitioners in providing assessment, medical intervention, continuous monitoring and/or consultation to the critical care population using telecommunication technologies.
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Practice Guidelines for Video-Based Online Mental Health Services
August 26, 2026
ATA Telemental Health SIG
ATA Telemental Health SIG
Covering the provision of mental health services when using real-time videoconferencing services transmitted via the Internet, including a personal computer with a webcam or a mobile communications device (e.
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