While the pandemic prompted an unprecedented surge in telehealth to address healthcare needs, it also highlighted the gap between those who can access care and those who can’t.
Now health...
The Wake Forest School of Medicine is launching five separate projects that will use telehealth and remote patient monitoring in determining how social determinants of health access to care.
A sixth...
A handful of Medicaid programs in Kansas are partnering with an addiction treatment company to give members access to care through telehealth.
Aetna Better Health of Kansas, Sunflower Health...
North Carolina will now allow dentists to offer telehealth services.
Governor Roy Cooper recently signed into law SB 146, which sets standards for the practice of teledentistry in the state. Among...
With the pandemic limiting access to in-person healthcare, audio-only telehealth has surfaced as a popular platform for care delivery. But it’s not good for all (or even many) services, and...
Hawai’i is launching a new program to bring digital literacy and telehealth services to libraries in underserved parts of the state.
The state’s Department of Health is partnering with the...
A pilot program in South Carolina is tackling the digital literacy divide with a program that teaches seniors how to use telehealth technology.
Supported by the South Carolina Department on Aging and...
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...
While the pandemic saw an across-the-board surge in telehealth adoption, federally qualified health centers often experienced the biggest benefits. Long restrained by restrictive Medicare rules, FQHCs...
A pair of Congressmen have re-introduced proposed legislation aimed at codifying telehealth coverage for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
US Reps Glenn Thompson (R-PA) and...
Different populations adopt telehealth at different rates and for different reasons, so a strategy that seeks to address social determinants of health with a one-size-fits-all approach won’t...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is expanding its telehealth platform to help diagnose and treat patients with vision problems.
UAB Eye Care, a clinical division of UAB’s School of...
Texas is expanding Medicaid coverage for telehealth and remote patient monitoring services and expanding broadband connectivity to rural parts of the state to, among other things, help providers expand...
VA healthcare providers in Wyoming are adding telehealth services to their eye care program to serve distant veterans in the rural state.
The Cheyenne VA Medical Center has acquired a mobile health...
A New York-based managed care plan says telehealth services for members with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) have helped lead to fewer emergency room visits and reduced...
The University of North Florida is launching a project with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine how social determinants of health may be driving low telehealth access in...
A group of senators is pushing new legislation that would increase federal funding for telehealth programs in rural states.
The Rural and Telehealth Expansion Act, sponsored by Senators Shelley Moore...
The use of telehealth in HIV treatment for patients living in rural Georgia showed comparable results to in-person care, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
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With Congress facing dozens of bills aimed at improving telehealth coverage beyond the pandemic, one Senator is pressing the issue by combining four bills into one piece of legislation.
Senator John...
Some 36 telehealth programs across the country will get federal funding through the Federal Communications Commission’s Connected Care Pilot Program.
The FCC approved new guidelines for the $100...
