Merck is partnering with a digital health company to launch a remote patient monitoring program aimed at people living with Alzheimer’s Disease.
The pharma giant and California-based Evidation...
A national non-profit that uses telehealth to provide mentoring and eConsult services to community health clinics has received a grant to help extend its platform.
The MAVEN Project, which currently...
Telehealth advocates have launched another effort to prompt Congress to establish a post-pandemic connected health policy.
The eHealth Initiative is leading a new letter-writing effort to permanently...
While the pandemic saw an across-the-board surge in telehealth adoption, federally qualified health centers often experienced the biggest benefits. Long restrained by restrictive Medicare rules, FQHCs...
A pair of Congressmen have re-introduced proposed legislation aimed at codifying telehealth coverage for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
US Reps Glenn Thompson (R-PA) and...
Remote patient monitoring may be catching on with health systems across the country, but its path to Medicare reimbursement is still a work in progress.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
A North Carolina hospice is getting a $36,000 grant to support its two-year-old telehealth service.
The Hospice of Davidson County, based in Lexington, is getting funding from the Foundation for a...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is expanding its telehealth platform to help diagnose and treat patients with vision problems.
UAB Eye Care, a clinical division of UAB’s School of...
Texas is expanding Medicaid coverage for telehealth and remote patient monitoring services and expanding broadband connectivity to rural parts of the state to, among other things, help providers expand...
A group of Senators is calling for “robust and sustained funding” for two federal programs that increase access to pediatric telehealth services. And a second group is seeking continued...
UMass Memorial Health is joining the Hospital at Home movement, with a new program that integrates remote patient monitoring and telehealth strategies with in-person visits to provide care management...
New research from a trio of healthcare’s heavy hitters indicates telehealth is also good for the environment.
In what’s being billed as the first large-scale study in the US, researchers...
VA healthcare providers in Wyoming are adding telehealth services to their eye care program to serve distant veterans in the rural state.
The Cheyenne VA Medical Center has acquired a mobile health...
A Canadian study calls for more federal investment in telehealth services at the primary care level to help providers address mental healthcare needs.
The study, led by researchers at the University...
While many healthcare providers are just now getting into the remote patient monitoring arena, Ochsner Health has scaled its platform to a national level, and is now monitoring more than 20,000 people...
West Virginia University researchers are touting the early results of an ongoing program that uses telehealth to help residents transition back to home after a story in a nursing home or long-term care...
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center are integrating telehealth into a federal funded study on suicide prevention.
Financed by almost $8 million in funding from the...
Telehealth is making the second opinion much more meaningful.
While patients and healthcare providers have been using connected health for years to both research and support diagnoses and treatment...
Lawmakers in Washington DC are continuing to push for more federal funding for broadband expansion, which in turn would greatly expand telehealth adoption.
The Broadband Reform and Investment to Drive...
The University of North Florida is launching a project with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine how social determinants of health may be driving low telehealth access in...
