Two more telehealth bills have resurfaced on Capitol Hill, joining a growing package of legislation aimed at improving connected health coverage and access after the coronavirus pandemic.
US Reps....
Magellan Health is launching a new study to determine how mHealth games can help children with mental health concerns.
The Arizona-based managed care company’s behavioral and specialty health...
A Chicago health system is expanding its telemedicine platform to give patients and care providers at two outlying hospitals on-demand access to emergency pediatric services.
Pediatricians at...
A telemedicine network launched by Massachusetts General Hospital to provide on-demand neonatal support has expanded into New Hampshire.
Dover-based Wentworth-Douglass Hospital is now connected with...
With most state governments enacting emergency measures to improve Medicaid coverage for telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic, a national law firm has drafted a list of actions those...
A new bill before Congress aims to improve telehealth coverage for children through state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) services.
The Telehealth Improvement for...
A telehealth platform that includes clinical decision support tools can help care providers reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing rates, according to a study conducted at Children’s...
A program launched in 2015 to study pediatric telehealth services has unveiled a set of standards aimed at improving hospital programs across the country.
The Supporting Pediatric Research on Outcomes...
A remote patient monitoring program for babies who’ve had heart surgery has helped reduce infant mortality by some 40 percent, according to the American Heart Association.
In a scientific...
Solo healthcare providers often have a variety of reasons for moving to a telehealth platform, ranging from patient convenience to a better work-life balance.
And while Sierra Christensen, PT, DPT,...
Federal officials have awarded $20 million to four healthcare providers and two organizations to improve telehealth outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic - including efforts to expand multi-state...
With the Coronavirus pandemic shutting down nearly every school in the country, parents of children with special needs are turning to telehealth to maintain access to critical services.
An...
Minnesota’s only pediatric hospital is launching a telehealth program to extend neonatal care to six hospitals across the state.
Children’s Minnesota, the seventh largest pediatric health...
A California legislator has introduced a bill that aims to create a pediatric telehealth network to give children across the state better access to mental and behavioral healthcare.
AB 2464,...
