Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is launching a telehealth program to provide specialized telehealth services for elderly patients and training for care providers at four northern New England...
A healthcare service run by the Archdiocese of New York is launching a home telehealth platform for seniors that coordinates care through their television.
ArchCare, which offers services for seniors,...
A workgroup of payers, providers and others in Vermont is recommending that the state continue coverage of audio-only telehealth services beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
In a 114-page report to state...
The coronavirus pandemic forced many counseling centers to transition quickly to telehealth this past year. Some have had an easier time than others in adjusting, but nearly all have learned invaluable...
Employees can use telehealth to establish a serious health condition that would qualify them for taking time off from work under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
The US Department of...
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has signed into law a telehealth bill that mandates permanent payment parity for telemental health services and established parity for primary care and chronic care...
Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package.
While the $900 billion bill, passed by Congress and signed by...
A telehealth platform has helped the Medical University of South Carolina screen patients for kidney transplants during the coronavirus pandemic – in some cases improving on the process that was...
An Arkansas hospital is shutting down its urgent care mHealth app in favor of a more comprehensive telehealth platform.
Baxter Regional Medical Center announced shortly before Christmas that it would...
Six health centers across Mississippi will soon have access to addiction treatment services via telehealth in a federally funded program aimed at tackling the nation’s substance abuse...
The latest federal COVID-19 relief bill is giving new life to a program aimed at expanding telehealth through better broadband connectivity.
The bill, signed by President Donald Trump this past...
California lawmakers will debate a bill next month that aims to make expanded telehealth coverage permanent for the state’s Medicare program.
AB 32, introduced earlier this month by State...
Massachusetts lawmakers are forging ahead on a telehealth bill that would mandate payment parity for primary care and chronic care management for the next two years and make payment parity permanent...
Ohio lawmakers have passed legislation barring the use of telemedicine in medication abortions, joining 19 other states in eliminating the connected health service.
Senate Bill 260 was approved by the...
A telehealth platform that includes mHealth wearables and a text messaging platform helped healthcare providers at Penn Medicine reduce rehospitalizations by 75 percent among patients who’d had...
A new bill before Congress aims to expand Medicare coverage for audio-only phone calls in telehealth programs.
The Permanency for Audio-Only Telehealth Act, introduced last week by US Reps. Jason...
A three-year demonstration project at critical access hospitals in some of the country’s most rural regions found strong support for the use of telehealth to improve access to care.
The apparent...
Oregon’s state government has forged agreements with nine payers to extend emergency telehealth coverage – including payment parity – through at least June of 2021.
The extension...
Dozens of health systems across the country are embracing a program that uses telehealth and mHealth to provide care at home for patients who would otherwise be hospitalized.
Centers for Medicare...
A robust in-patient telehealth platform can save a health system millions of dollars, reduce workload stresses for care providers and, most importantly, improve care outcomes.
That’s the...
