Telehealth will only succeed in the US if it becomes interoperable.
That was the main takeaway from an American Telemedicine Association webinar this week, the opening salvo in a long-term campaign by...
Planned Parenthood is suing the state of Wisconsin over its restrictive abortion laws – including a ban on telemedicine abortions.
The 56-page lawsuit, filed this week in Madison by the national...
Virginia lawmakers are considering a bill that would define remote patient monitoring and include it in the commonwealth’s telehealth and telemedicine guidelines.
House Bill 1970 and Senate Bill...
The American College of Physicians has reinforced its support of telemedicine in establishing the doctor-patient relationship in first-time visits – as long as the virtual care platform includes...
Telemedicine and telehealth may be the norm rather than the exception in hospitals and health systems, but smaller medical practices still aren’t embracing connected care technology.
A recent...
New York may be taking a look at how telehealth can help the state’s worker’s comp system.
Senate Bill 1042, introduced this week by state Senator Catharine Young proposes establishing a...
New Jersey healthcare providers are getting more than $2.3 million to expand telehealth and telemedicine programs to identify and treat children with behavioral and mental health issues.
The state...
Healthcare providers in half of the United States now have the opportunity to practice telehealth in multiple states.
Michigan’s inclusion in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC),...
An effective telemedicine platform will not only improve outcomes and reduce wasteful spending, but give smaller, rural hospitals the expertise to treat more of their patients and reduce stressful...
A Texas-based psychiatry clinic is using telehealth to help patients manage their health outside the doctor’s office.
Carter Health Psychiatry & Wellness, located just south of Houston in...
A new law taking effect in Illinois this week expands coverage for telehealth programs aimed at seniors living with diabetes.
HB 5351, passed in May 2018 and signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner in August,...
A Kansas judge has shot down efforts by state lawmakers to ban telemedicine abortions, the second victory for supporters of the connected care service in two weeks.
District Judge Franklin Theis ruled...
Michigan Gov. Bill Snyder has vetoed a proposal to extend the state’s six-year-old ban on telemedicine abortions.
Snyder shot down Senate Bill 1998 following party-line votes in the state Senate...
With 2019 on the doorstep, healthcare leaders are looking for clues as to what the coming year will hold for telehealth and mHealth. And while most of the experts have long since tossed out the...
UPMC is extending its telemedicine platform into supermarkets, joining a connected health industry trend that sees consumers shopping for groceries, pharmaceutical products and healthcare all in one...
A new bill in New Mexico seeks to add telemedicine to the “right to die” debate.
The Elizabeth Whitefield End of Life Options Act (HB 90), introduced on Dec. 20 by State Rep. Deborah...
Only about 8 percent of the nation’s Emergency Departments have pediatric telemedicine units, according to new research. And while connected care platforms have been found to improve care...
The Ochsner Health System is launching a new remote patient monitoring service aimed at improving care management for patients with implanted cardiac devices.
The New Orleans-based health system, one...
Penn Medicine a telemedicine program to expand the reach of its specialists in offering second opinions on brain tumor diagnoses.
The health system’s nationally recognized Penn Brain Tumor...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is getting a $4.6 million federal grant to integrate a telemedicine platform into a novel music-enhanced physical therapy program for people with...