The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare coverage for certain audiology and speech-language pathology services delivered via telehealth during the coronavirus...
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...
For people with chronic health concerns, mHealth apps and telehealth platforms offer an on-demand platform for connecting with care providers and enjoying a better life outside the doctor’s...
A group of lawmakers has resubmitted a bill seeking to permanently expand Medicare coverage to telehealth services provided by physical and occupational therapists, audiologists and speech and...
Boston Medical Center is launching an mHealth app designed to assist healthcare providers using medication-assisted treatment (MAT) therapy.
The BMC MAT app, developed by Colleen LaBelle MSN, RN-BC,...
Florida lawmakers are debating a bill that would allow veterinarians to treat animals via telehealth.
SB 1370, which was unanimously approved by the State Senate Agriculture Committee this week, would...
UNC Children’s Hospital is partnering with a network of broadband providers across North Carolina to expand telehealth access to underserved parts of the state.
The 10-year, $500,000 deal...
Proposed telehealth legislation is included in a package of 12 bills designed to address racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes.
The Black Maternal Momnibus Act of 2021, introduced...
America’s businesses have always run on the mantra that employee health is important to the company’s bottom line, and that lost work time means lost productivity. Now they’re...
The Mount Sinai Health System is launching a telehealth program aimed at improving care management for cancer patients at home.
The New York health system will be sending high-risk oncology patients...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is aiming to put his state at the front of the line in telehealth access and coverage with a wide-ranging legislative proposal that, among other things, eliminates...
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 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...
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...
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...
Telehealth advocates have long argued that one of the biggest barriers to expansion are state and federal laws that prohibit practicing medicine across state lines. Now a Virginia-based counselor is...
Telehealth and remote patient monitoring will see significant improvements in Medicare coverage in 2021.
The long-awaited 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, unveiled on Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare...
One side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic is that it has highlighted new uses for telehealth. And veterinary care is at the top of that list.
Interest in veterinary telehealth is surging during the...
A federal audit of substance abuse treatment programs has found that many encountered technical problems with using telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic – but they see the benefits and want...
