With the Coronavirus pandemic shutting down nearly every school in the country, parents of children with special needs are turning to telehealth to maintain access to critical services. An example of this are early intervention...
Healthcare providers are scrambling to keep up with the demand for telehealth services as the Coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the nation. Many are seeing unexpected benefits in the shift to connected health – and hoping the...
As Congress votes on a funding package that includes Medicare waivers for some telehealth services and the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) cancels its conference in Florida, healthcare providers across the country...
Healthcare providers and payers in eight states and the District of Columbia will soon be able to prescribe VR therapy through a telehealth clinic, giving patients an opportunity to use the digital health technology at home for remote...
Regence is putting a new spin on direct-to-consumer telehealth with a service that promises members access to a doctor within seconds. The Oregon-based payer with more than 3 million members in several Western states has launched the Ask a...
Faced with a nationwide opioid abuse crisis and a surge of people needing mental health services, states are moving to embrace telehealth as a means of expanding access to treatment. But the path to better care is still bumpy. State...
An innovative project in Ohio is using barbershops, hair salons and telehealth to screen people for hypertension. Three Cleveland-area barbershops in urban neighborhoods are currently working with the Cleveland Clinc to screen patrons with...
One of the nation’s largest health systems is expanding its direct-to-consumer telehealth service, offering on-demand, video-based care to residents in five Western states. Providence St. Joseph Health rolled out its ExpressCare...
A remote patient monitoring program launched two years ago at UPMC is helping care providers identify and treat new mothers dealing with hypertension. The telehealth program, which sends new moms home with an mHealth-enabled blood pressure...
A Rhode Island hospital is launching a pilot program to determine whether an mHealth wearable can help users lose weight. Researchers the The Miriam Hospital, part of the Lifespan Health System, will be using an mHealth device called the...
Lowell General Hospital is turning Amazon’s Alexa into an mHealth assistant for patients headed home after undergoing knee replacement surgery. The Massachusetts-based hospital is in the midst of a second pilot program with the Amazon...
Telehealth’s greatest gift to healthcare may be that it can connect the caregiver to the patient who, without access to that care, would die. And that’s a real concern for the 100 million Americans who are either uninsured or...
In an industry constantly looking for innovative ways to lower costs, improve communication and expand access, eConsult programs have emerged as a viable tool for improving care coordination for hard-to-reach Medicaid patients. These...
Asynchronous telehealth has often been called a niche service, ideal for specialist consults and certain fields like teledermatology. But the adaptability of store-and-forward telehealth to provider workflows is making it a popular model...
With virus outbreaks showing up more often in the daily newsfeed and antibiotic stewardship a growing concern, healthcare providers are turning to telehealth to make sure they have on-demand access to infectious disease specialists....
An effective telemedicine platform will not only improve outcomes and reduce wasteful spending, but give smaller, rural hospitals the expertise to treat more of their patients and reduce stressful transfers to larger hospitals. That, in...
Interstate medical licensure compacts, which enable healthcare providers to more easily apply for and receive permission to practice medicine in other states, have been touted as a means of expanding telehealth and telemedicine....
