Telehealth advocates are once again putting pressure on the US Drug Enforcement Agency to finalize a special registration process so that care providers can use telemedicine to prescribe certain...
An Ohio behavioral health clinic is using a federal grant of almost $2 million to expand telehealth services for domestic violence victims in need of counseling.
The Toledo-based Zepf Center is using...
With most state governments enacting emergency measures to improve Medicaid coverage for telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic, a national law firm has drafted a list of actions those...
Healthcare providers will be getting some help in learning how to use telehealth to integrate mental health services into standard pathways of care.
With a coronavirus pandemic and rising substance...
West Virginia University is getting a $1.2 million federal grant to create a telemedicine platform that will give rural hospital ERs on-demand access to specialists.
The four-year grant from the...
California is now allowing local EMS providers to develop community paramedicine programs, which could use telehealth or mHealth tools to triage 911 calls at home and divert patients from hospital ERs...
Veterans will soon have more opportunities to use telehealth to access mental health services, following Congressional passage of a bill targeting the high suicide rate among service members.
The...
Florida officials are using $2 million in CARES Act funding to help schoolchildren access mental health services through telehealth.
First Lady Casey DeSantis announced this week that the money will...
A group of clinicians and public health experts is pressing the federal government to make permanent telehealth policy changes that would improve access to care for people undergoing substance abuse...
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...
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 new bill before Congress proposes to have the Department of Veterans Affairs create telehealth programs at three VA centers to helps veterans access mental health services.
The Veterans Access to...
A non-profit that targets veteran homelessness is using telehealth to expand access to mental health and other services.
Soldier On, which was launched in 1994 in Pittsfield, MA and now serves...
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...
UCLA is launching a three-year study, using telehealth and mHealth tools, that aims to give healthcare providers a better handle on how to diagnose and treat depression.
Researchers at the university,...
Avera Health is launching a telehealth platform to give South Dakota law enforcement and court officers on-demand access to telemental health professionals.
The Sioux Falls-based health system is...
A Massachusetts insurer is expanding coverage for mental health services delivered via telehealth.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced last week that it would offer telemental health...
Federally qualified health centers looking to expand their telehealth footprint need to take a closer look at why their patients are having problems accessing healthcare.
Transportation issues,...
Lawmakers from one of the nation’s most rural states are seeking to make it easier for so-called “frontier” states to use telehealth for mental health access and treatment.
Both the...
A new bill before the Senate aims to expand the telehealth platform for substance abuse treatment.
Introduced last week by Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the Telehealth...
