The Biden Administration is supporting the use of telehealth to facilitate medication abortions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Acting US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock...
Federal officials are making $12 million available for three projects that aim to approve maternal and obstetrics care for underserved populations in rural America, and they expect telehealth to be...
A recent Supreme Court ruling gives healthcare providers a little more freedom to send automated text messages to patients.
The court earlier this month sided with Facebook in a case involving the...
Remote patient programs don’t just automatically work out. They have to be carefully planned and developed in order to gain traction and produce results. Most importantly, they have to target the...
Healthcare providers and researchers who are looking into how telehealth can be used to treat patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases could score some extra funding for their work.
The...
The University of Washington and Microsoft have developed an mHealth platform that can collect vital signs using the camera on a laptop or smartphone.
The technology, which analyzes video of a...
Three health systems will be testing an mHealth platform aimed at helping patients experiencing cognitive dysfunction following COVID-19, a side effect to the coronavirus pandemic that could affect...
The American Medical Association is lobbying for permanent Medicare coverage for audio-only telehealth services.
In a letter to Acting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator...
North Dakota lawmakers have shot down a pilot project to study payment parity for telehealth services, saying the idea of charging the same rate for virtual and in-person care would be...
The COVID-19 threat pushed more people onto telehealth platforms for cardiovascular care, according to new research out of Cedars-Sinai. But it also led to fewer tests and medications.
Those takeaways...
A Massachusetts-based health system that saw a more than 50 percent decrease in office visits during the height of the coronavirus pandemic is using mHealth to make sure patients are still getting the...
The battle over using telehealth to conduct eye exams has surfaced in Michigan, where lawmakers are debating a bill that would allow virtual exams for prescribing contact lenses.
HB 4356, introduced...
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic curtailing in-person care, physicians at Stanford Children’s Health are using mHealth devices and telehealth platforms to monitor some of their youngest and...
Stanford Medicine is partnering with Fitbit to study the value on mHealth wearables in identifying and tracking infectious disease like COVID-19 among college athletes.
The connected health study,...
Boston Children’s Hospital is launching a telehealth program to screen newborns on Cape Cod and outlying islands for hearing issues.
The hospital is creating a hub-and-spoke telemedicine...
The Alliance for Connected Care is leading a new lobbying effort to include telehealth in a Medicare-funded diabetes prevention program.
The organization is lining up supporters behind a letter that...
The Federal Communications Commission will soon accept application for the second round of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
The agency’s board of commissioners voted today to formally adopt a...
Rush University Medical Center has unveiled a telehealth platform that allows physicians to remotely manage patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) at home.
Through the NeuroSphere Virtual...
A new bill before Congress aims to expand telehealth access for patients living with mental health concerns at rural hospitals.
The Rural Health Behavioral Access Act, sponsored by US Reps. Dan Kildee...
Lawmakers are once again taking aim at the substance abuse epidemic with a wide-ranging bill that expands access to telehealth – including audio-only phone services – for...
