The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is suspending more regulations tied to telehealth during the Coromavirus pandemic, giving healthcare providers more freedom to use connected health...
The US Department of Agriculture is giving rural healthcare providers more opportunities to apply for federal funding for telehealth programs to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic.
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The Federal Communications Commission is launching a new telehealth program aimed at using $200 million in new federal funding to improve broadband connectivity for connected health services.
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Doctors in 35 states and the District of Columbia can now use telehealth to treat patients in other states, as part of the massive national effort to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic.
Officials in...
Federal officials are relaxing broadband rules to enable hospitals and health systems to work with Internet service providers to improve connectivity for telehealth and mHealth programs.
The Federal...
Ohio’s Senate has approved a ban on the use of telemedicine in abortions, pushing the state closer to becoming the 19th to prohibit the service.
By a 20-9 vote, with two Republicans joining the...
Congress is set to debate a bill mandating Medicare coverage for mHealth tools and platforms that focus on relieving chronic pain.
HR 5833, introduced in February by US Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH), would...
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...
Telehealth programs targeting rural areas of Virginia will benefit from the disbursement of more than $8 million in state grants to a dozen projects aimed at boosting broadband connectivity.
Governor...
A California legislator has submitted a bill seeking to improve Medicaid coverage for telehealth services used by federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
AB 2007, submitted this...
Telehealth may be improving clinical outcomes, reducing costs and easing provider stress, but it’s also giving South Dakota state officials something else to smile about: the growing success rate...
The University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy is partnering with a chain of urgent care centers to launch roughly two dozen telehealth clinics in retail locations across Wyoming.
Stitches Acute Care...
A group of lawmakers wants to bring telehealth to bear on the nation’s high maternal mortality rate, with a bill that aims to improve broadband connectivity in rural regions where new and...
Telemedicine technology may have saved the life of an astronaut on the International Space Station.
The astronaut – whose identity is not being disclosed – developed a deep vein thrombosis...
