Telehealth

Des Moines (Iowa) University will use $4 million in grant and investment funds to open a new telehealth training center, which will create hundreds of new jobs, according to a Feb. 18 WHO Radio report. 

After water and power outages swept Texas following a severe winter storm, prescription discount service GoodRx offered the state's residents free telehealth visits throughout February.

Salt Lake City -based Intermountain Healthcare has deployed Amwell's new Carepoint telehealth device across 1,200 of its hospital TVs, creating new virtual care end points for clinicians and patients.

Some healthcare providers have reported noticeable changes in patient no-shows, appointment lengths and administrative burden resulting from their telehealth usage, according to recent survey results released by healthcare software company CoverMyMeds.

The pandemic rapidly accelerated patients' use of telehealth, with use rising nearly 4,000 percent from previous levels last April as in-person visits simultaneously declined by 65 percent, according to recent survey results released by healthcare software company CoverMyMeds.

The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated healthcare providers' adoption of telehealth, but the jury is still out on whether it will remain a key part of healthcare delivery after the pandemic subsides.

The COVID-19 pandemic has expedited many hospitals' adoption of virtual care, which can serve as an entry point to a better healthcare experience by quickly guiding patients to the care that's right for them.

Twenty-two states have laws that address payment and reimbursement rates for telehealth services, including requiring commercial insurers to pay providers the same rate for services delivered via telehealth as in person, according to a recent report from law firm Foley…

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota will extend virtual care benefits for its members through the end of 2021, the insurer said Feb. 10.

Peter Antall, MD, chief medical officer for Amwell, talks about Virtual Primary Care (VPC) and why health plans and employers should be thinking about it.