With direct-to-consumer telehealth firmly entrenched in the primary care landscape, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is partnering with one of the giants in the DTC industry to make...
Washington lawmakers have approved two telehealth bills and sent them on to Governor Jay Inslee for his signature.
The bills approved this week were HB 5386, which would establish training...
Telehealth and telemedicine have long been held up as a means of saving lives and reducing stress. At next week’s American Telemedicine Association conference and exhibition in New Orleans,...
Physicians who use a direct-to-consumer telehealth platform to treat children with cold symptoms are more likely to prescribe antibiotics and are more apt to ignore standards of care, according to a...
A health program targeting Orange County’s homeless population is investing $100 million over the next three years in mHealth services and other interventions.
CalOptima, which handles Medicaid...
A group of UMass Memorial Healthcare physicians is launching a telemedicine program that will allow emergency room physicians to connect with specialists via virtual care to evaluate patients being...
New Mexico is set to become the latest state to expand access to telehealth and telemedicine by mandating coverage and payment parity for health plans.
By an almost unanimous vote, state lawmakers...
New Hampshire lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would expand Medicaid coverage for telehealth services – but in many instances only after the doctor and patient meet in person.
SB...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking more than $1 billion in federal funding to expand its telehealth network for veterans.
In testimony on Capitol Hill this week, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie...
Critics may be bemoaning the slow adoption rate of telehealth services for substance abuse treatment, but one network of healthcare providers in Minnesota is making strides with a connected care...
Utah’s governor has signed legislation expanding Medicaid payment parity for telehealth and telemedicine services.
Gov. Gary Herbert’s signature on HB 392 mandates that the state’s...
A national payer organization is urging health plans to support telemedicine as a means of expanding substance abuse treatment for members.
In a new report, America’s Health Insurance Plans...
Nevada lawmakers have yanked telehealth provisions out of a proposed bill setting standards for physician-assisted suicide, the second state to do so this year.
SB 165, which would permit physicians...
Legislators in Arkansas and Nebraska are debating two of telehealth’s more controversial concepts this week – phone-based virtual consults and telemedicine abortions.
In Arkansas, that...
A national provider of behavioral healthcare services for long-term care facilities is using telemedicine to address an urgent need for mental health care.
Texas-based Deer Oaks, which works with some...
Massachusetts may have opened the doors to Medicaid coverage for certain telemental health services this year, but a new analysis by a national law firm finds that the guidelines for telemedicine use...
A non-profit that provides eConsults to Federally Qualified Health Centers and other community health clinics is upgrading its telemedicine platform.
The MAVEN (Medical Alumni Volunteer Expert...
Georgia lawmakers are pushing forward with a pair of telemedicine bills that would enable providers in other states to deliver virtual care in the state, while mandating that payers cover telehealth...
The Shriners Hospital network is expanding its reach into Kansas through a telemedicine partnership with Newton Medical Center.
Shriners specialists in the network’s St. Louis hospital will soon...
As telehealth programs across the country look to scalability and sustainability, they seem to put the focus on numbers: how many patients served, how much money saved, how many rehospitalizations...