Avera Health is selling its telehealth business line, sending one of the nation’s largest and most innovative connected health programs into the private sector.
The South Dakota-based health...
A digital health collaborative launched in May has set its sights on developing best practices to address the social determinants of health.
The Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community...
Telehealth advocates have launched another effort to prompt Congress to establish a post-pandemic connected health policy.
The eHealth Initiative is leading a new letter-writing effort to permanently...
A pair of Senators has re-introduced proposed legislation aimed at give seniors better access to mHealth and telehealth tools for diabetes care management.
The Improving Medicare Beneficiary Access to...
New research from a trio of healthcare’s heavy hitters indicates telehealth is also good for the environment.
In what’s being billed as the first large-scale study in the US, researchers...
The mHealth wearables industry has long been focused on activity bands and watches, even jewelry and smartglasses. Often overlooked is the concept of sensor-embedded clothing, but that form factor is...
The Mayo Clinic has launched a new mHealth platform aimed at helping healthcare providers improve their use of connected health devices in remote patient monitoring and other mobile health...
Google has launched an mHealth app for healthcare studies, allowing researchers and providers to collect data from participants using Android phones.
In unveiling the Google Health Studies app this...
A new project in Massachusetts aims to determine how telehealth can be used to address social and racial barriers to care during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Massachusetts Association of Health Plans...
A new survey finds that fear of COVID-19 contamination is keeping patients away from the doctor, and telehealth could ease those fears by turning in-person visits to virtual visits.
Roughly a third of...
One side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic is that it has highlighted new uses for telehealth. And veterinary care is at the top of that list.
Interest in veterinary telehealth is surging during the...
New Jersey lawmakers have expanded the state’s telehealth guidelines to allow more healthcare providers to use connected health technologies during the coronavirus pandemic.
The state’s...
The sharp increase in telehealth use during the pandemic is giving healthcare providers new opportunities to expand their reach. But how can they make patients – both potential and existing...
A group of Congressmen wants to prod states into joining the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which aims to make it easier for providers to use telehealth to treat patients in other states.
US...
The American Medical Association has adopted a new policy on telehealth.
The organization concluded its five-day virtual meeting this week with a nod to a recent survey from the COVID-19 Healthcare...
A survey of roughly 1,600 healthcare providers finds that almost 70 percent are motivated to use more telehealth because of the experiences they’ve had during the coronavirus pandemic – and...
The Alliance for Connected Care wants to make it easier for health systems and hospitals to use telehealth to treat patients no matter where they live.
The organization is seeking support for...
Like so many other health systems, the Mayo Clinic ramped up its telehealth platform to address the coronavirus pandemic, adopting digital health tools and processes that normally would have taken a...
Telehealth and mHealth are pushing the healthcare ecosystem further toward value-based care, and a key ingredient in this transition is digital therapeutics.
Digital therapeutics is “something...
The Federal Communications Commission is set to launch its Connected Care Pilot Program, a three-year, $100 million project aimed at expanding telehealth access for low-income Americans, veterans and...