New Jersey lawmakers have expanded the state’s telehealth guidelines to allow more healthcare providers to use connected health technologies during the coronavirus pandemic.
The state’s...
Roughly a quarter of dentists responding to a recent survey said they’re using telehealth to manage patient care during the coronavirus pandemic, and many of them plan to continue using connected...
A group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that would ensure Medicare coverage for telehealth services provided by physical and occupational therapists, audiologists and speech and language...
New research from the University of Pennsylvania and Independence Blue Cross finds that a telemedicine platform can reduce the wait for dermatologist consult from six weeks to less than six hours.
The...
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...
Researchers at Yale University are launching a connected health study that will analyze three different telehealth and mHealth platforms for treating patients living with heart failure.
The Yale...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that 11 more telehealth services will qualify for Medicare reimbursement during the coronavirus pandemic.
The agency also released new...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is again facing calls to expand telehealth coverage for audiology and speech-language pathology during the coronavirus pandemic.
A group of 34 members...
Patients dealing with chronic pain have enough discomfort in their lives without the regular trips to the clinic or doctor’s office. A telehealth platform could make life a lot easier for...
With the coronavirus pandemic curbing in-person care, substance abuse treatment programs are turning to telehealth to keep the channels of communication open with people struggling to stay clean and...
Radiologists and psychiatrists are most interested in telehealth jobs, according to a new report from Doximity, while anesthesiologists and surgeons are showing the least interest.
The 2020 State of...
Federal officials have unveiled a new treatment model for patients living with kidney disease that could boost interest in telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs.
The Centers for Medicare...
Washington DC lawmakers are set to enact a new law that would greatly expand telehealth coverage for postpartum care.
The Postpartum Coverage Expansion Act Amendment of 2020, which was passed...
A Texas hospital is launching a telehealth program that will use mHealth wearables to improve care management for patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
The Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute...
Federal officials are issuing roughly $1.5 billion to healthcare providers and other organizations to help them use telehealth and other tools to combat the opioid abuse crisis.
In the first year of...
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...
Nebraska lawmakers have approved legislation requiring payers in the state to cover telehealth services provided by a dermatologist on an asynchronous (store-and-forward) platform.
LB 760, signed into...
Small hospitals across the country are turning to telehealth to expand their treatment options and give patients access to specialists they might otherwise have to travel long distances to see. These...
