Atrium Health has established a new virtual care clinic at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church's Community Life Center in Shelby, North Carolina.
The Charlotte, North Carolina-based health system's new...
Supermarket retailer Hy-Vee, Inc. has launched a telehealth platform that allows individuals to receive treatments and prescriptions through the mail.
The new service, RedBox Rx, offers virtual health...
Premise Health, a provider of healthcare services to self-funded employers, labor unions, and associations, is expanding its virtual care model by allowing members to choose a digital provider as their...
Remote patient monitoring fell short in detecting manufacturing defects and premature battery depletion in cardiac rhythm management (CRM) devices, according to a case study published in Heart Rhythms...
Digital interventions accessed through a computer or smartphone were effective at reducing symptoms of depression, according to a meta-analysis published by the American Psychological Association.
The...
Though live video was the most-used telehealth modality in 2021, satisfaction levels with this type of visit fell — from 53 percent of Americans saying they were more satisfied with live video...
Four individuals have been charged for their involvement in a telemedicine fraud scheme that swindled public and private payers out of $37 million through the generation of unnecessary prescriptions...
Hydrogen Health is extending its virtual primary care model to self-insured employers and insurers, including several Fortune 500 employers and regional health plans.
The company, a joint venture...
Members of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bipartisan bill that seeks to ensure permanent access to telehealth services.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), who is the chair...
Patients and clinicians found telehealth use convenient for chronic kidney disease management, but overall, the virtual modality yielded low satisfaction levels for clinical effectiveness, ease of use,...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and 15 other healthcare organizations have launched a campaign that aims to preserve telehealth access after the public health emergency has ended.
When the...
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing health inequities, widening the already large gap between the care that white and Black Americans receive. A new report from public...
Renown Health has entered into a collaboration with remote patient monitoring provider BioIntelliSense to enhance in-hospital and at-home care.
The Reno, Nevada-based nonprofit health system, which...
National telehealth use increased by 2.3 percent in September, but COVID-19 is no longer in the top five diagnoses, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
The COVID-19...
A pharmacy owner has been convicted for participating in a $174 million telemedicine fraud, waste, and abuse scheme that deceived pharmacy benefit managers, payers, and consumers.
Peter Bolos, age 44,...
In one year, telehealth usage by Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries increased 63-fold — from approximately 840,000 virtual visits in 2019 to nearly 52.7 million in 2020, according to a...
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors has approved $49.5 million in research awards, $23.5 million of which will go toward supporting three research studies that...
Telehealth strategies and interventions are effective at lowering hemoglobin A1C levels in adults with type 2 diabetes, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled...
Washington state's Office of the Insurance Commissioner has finalized regulations to implement the audio-only telehealth law that was passed in May.
The law requires payers to reimburse providers...
Patients who preferred telehealth visits were more sensitive to out-of-pocket cost than those who preferred in-person visits, according to a new study by the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research...
