Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is asking the state Legislature to mandate coverage parity for telehealth services through the end of 2021.
The bill was included in a COVID-19 relief package unveiled by...
Roughly a quarter of dentists responding to a recent survey said they’re using telehealth to manage patient care during the coronavirus pandemic, and many of them plan to continue using connected...
Stanford Children's Health has launched a new chronic disease prevention virtual care program that utilizes telehealth strategies to provide comprehensive HIV-prevention services to patients up to...
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has signed legislation that amends the Commonwealth’s telehealth laws to eliminate originating site restrictions and the requirement that the patient be...
Health systems looking for an alternative to opioids are testing out mHealth and telehealth tools to help patients living with acute and chronic pain.
The Geisinger Health System, for example, is...
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...
Two health systems are getting almost $10 million to explore how telehealth can be used to improve care outcomes for women.
The grants, from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI),...
A group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that would ensure Medicare coverage for telehealth services provided by physical and occupational therapists, audiologists and speech and language...
Wearable devices have shown to be extremely effective in monitoring high risk patients post heart surgery in a new study, pointing to the benefits of mHealth and remote patient monitoring.
Atrial...
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...
A nurse-based telehealth platform is helping to reduce emergency room congestion and improve timely clinical outcomes at a Veterans Affairs health system.
In a study recently published in Emergency...
New research from the University of Pennsylvania and Independence Blue Cross finds that a telemedicine platform can reduce the wait for dermatologist consult from six weeks to less than six hours.
The...
Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will use a $228,000 federal grant to investigate how telehealth could improve Arkansas’ maternal death rate, which ranks...
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are launching a study to determine if mHealth messaging can improve vaccination rates among rural adolescents.
The program, funded by a $300,000...
McLeod Health has partnered with schools in Florence County School District Two to expand its School-Based Telehealth Program (SBTP) that provides non-emergency medical care to students through McLeod...
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...
In response to the results of the 2020 presidential election with America choosing former Vice President Joe Biden as its 46th president, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) issued a...
The US Food and Drug Administration has OK’d an innovative mHealth tool that can detect and help treat traumatic nightmares.
Called Nightware, the product consists of an mHealth app and...
