Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed into law a handful of bills aimed at expanding telehealth in the state, giving providers more Medicaid coverage and the leeway to use remote patient...
A Chicago health system is launching a telehealth service that will use mHealth wearables to monitor front-line employees and high-risk patients for early indications of COVID-19.
The University of...
When Long Island Select Healthcare tallied up the results of a three-year, grant-funded telehealth program in 2017, administrators saw strong results – an 86 percent reduction in ER visits, a 50...
As the healthcare industry looks to mHealth to improve both the doctor and patient experience, chatbots just might be the tool that meets everyone’s needs.
Also known as conversational agents,...
People living with a chronic condition want telehealth and mHealth tools to help manage their health at home, as long as those tools are coming from their doctor.
That conclusion, from a survey...
Nearly two dozen telehealth advocates, organizations, providers and vendors are joining forces to present a united front in lobbying for long-term connected health access and coverage.
The Taskforce...
The Federal Communications Commission has approved another 62 applications from healthcare providers for funding from the COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
With its 11th set of applications, the FCC has...
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has pushed telehealth and mHealth to center stage as healthcare providers of all sizes look to provide care on virtual platforms. But the emergency – and the...
Congress is growing increasingly worried that the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program isn’t doing what it should be doing.
In a letter issued Friday to FCC...
A new bill introduced in Congress this week aims to create a $50 million telehealth fund to launch remote patient monitoring programs in rural America.
The latest bill, introduced this week by...
The Federal Communications Commission has passed the halfway mark in funding telehealth programs to address the coronavirus pandemic, with more than $100 million in approved applications for COVID-19...
An mHealth data company is working to develop software that would enable providers to identify people with COVID-19 symptoms through remote patient monitoring platforms.
California-based Evidation...
Another 53 healthcare providers have been awarded grants from the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
To date, 238 providers in 41 states and Washington DC have...
Researchers at Purdue University are developing an mHealth app that can assess a patient’s blood hemoglobin levels through an image of the eyelid.
As explained in a recent post in The Optical...
The Federal Communications Commission has approved funding from the COVID-19 Telehealth Program for an additional 43 healthcare providers, though some lawmakers are questioning when any of those...
Michigan lawmakers are moving forward with a series of bills aimed at expanding telehealth in the state, including mandating Medicaid coverage for services delivered to the home and school and more...
Thirty-three more healthcare providers have qualified for funding under the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
The program, which aims to help providers launch or...
The University of Virginia Health System is applying lessons learned during the Ebola crisis to advocate for telehealth expansion during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and beyond.
Telemedicine...
The US Department of Defense is launching a massive project aimed at using mHealth wearables to identify new treatments for people infected with the Coronavirus.
The DoD is working with physIQ, a...
Another 26 healthcare providers are receiving funding from the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program for connected health services aimed at improving care management and...
