American Society for Quality (ASQ) advises the implementation of Telemedicine, remote monitoring systems and telerehabiliation programs

The American Society for Quality (ASQ) conducted an online poll with 475 U.S. healthcare quality professionals who are part of the ASQ quality community http://bit.ly/jivNXB. The report states that healthcare quality will be most impacted by shortages of clinicians including occupational and physical therapists both in the acute and sub acute and outpatients settings. One of the solutions proposed to allow healthcare organizations to prevent these shortage-related quality issues is the implementation of Telemedicine, remote monitoring systems and telerehabilitation programs.
The HandTutor and ArmTutor systems are used to give tele-rehabilitation world wide to children with arm and hand movement impairments and to supplement tradition occupational and physical therapy. The LegTutor system allows for patients to undertake a supervised and motivating exercise program for the knee and hip in their own homes following orthopedic trauma, disease and surgery.

American Telemedicine Association (ATA) asks Medicare to pay for telehealth services given by physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech

In a letter sent to Dr. Donald M. Berwick Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the American Telemedicine Association wants Medicare to waive the restrictions on telehealth payments so that telehealth services http://bit.ly/iC4pwm . This will mean that tele-medicine and telerehabilitation can be treated like any other form of care. As Administrator, Dr. Berwick oversees the Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Together, these programs provide care to nearly one in three Americans.
An important change will be the removal of Medicare restrictions on paying physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists for telehealth services. The ATA contends that lifting this and the location-based prohibition would open up home-based telerehabilitation, which the group called "an important service for beneficiaries from whom going to therapy is a major barrier."