Georgia is adding a new mobile health resource to its telemedicine service with the state’s first mobile stroke unit.
The mobile stroke treatment unit, a specially equipped ambulance designed to...
Healthcare providers in rural parts of the country will soon have more flexibility to use telemedicine, thanks to an increase in funding for broadband expansion projects.
The Federal Communications...
The House has passed the 2018 Farm Bill to increase funding for rural telemedicine and further combat the opioid crisis, and the bill is now awaiting Senate approval.
The revised bill includes several...
A second Michigan hospital is opening a telehealth unit to enable families to access care from Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Officials at Grand Rapids-based Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital...
The Pentagon is in the market for an enterprise telemedicine platform.
The Military Health System (MHS) has asked the telehealth and telemedicine industry for ideas on how it can consolidate its many...
Telehealth technology is allowing Dr. John Bender to be in two places at once. And that makes a big different in care management and coordination for thousands of patients at his Colorado-based medical...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai has announced his plan to significantly increase funding for the Universal Service Fund’s Rural Healthcare Program, an initiative that...
A mobile health program being tested in Arizona will use kiosks to connect consumers to pharmacy services, including prescription-filling and video access to a pharmacist.
Six kiosks developed by...
From innovative connected care platforms to the Internet of Things, telehealth is showing today’s seniors (and tomorrow’s soon-to-be seniors) how they can live out their golden years in their own homes.
The projected surge in...
The success of a telehealth program for people on home dialysis is prompting the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine to expand its horizons to transplant patients.
UAB...
A Pennsylvania health system is seeing unexpected benefits in deploying telemedicine technology inside the operating room.
Abington Hospital –Jefferson Health, which comprises two Abington-area...
North Carolina lawmakers are pushing ahead with a new bill to set payment and coverage parity standards for telehealth, while also requiring patient consent before any treatment.
The bill, HB 967,...
UPMC is using its telehealth and telemedicine network to attract new patients in central Pennsylvania – possibly to the detriment of one of its biggest competitors.
The Pittsburgh-based health...
The success and expansion of telemedicine programs across the country that focus on ICU care – also known as teleICU programs – has given rise to a new question: How should these programs...
The Senate is challenging the Federal Communications Commission on two fronts in an effort to improve broadband and cellphone connectivity in rural areas – key ingredients to expanding telehealth...
An Atlanta health system is seeing enough good results from a telemedicine platform in Australia that it’s opening a second eICU Down Under.
Officials at Emory Healthcare have announced a new...
Kansas has passed new legislation defining telemedicine and telehealth and setting parity guidelines.
Gov. Jeff Colyer signed H.B. 2028 into law over the weekend.
The new law contains a clause...
While telehealth providers were talking consolidation and enterprise platforms at this week’s American Telemedicine Association conference, Providence St. Joseph Health offered an example of how...
For years, telehealth advocates have been touting virtual visits as being just as good as the in-person visit. Now they’re saying telemedicine is better.
“Our focus is now on...
The trend toward enterprise telehealth platforms over stand-alone programs took a significant step forward Monday with a pair of major news announcements.
In moves timed to make a splash at the...