Telehealth

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health's telehealth network Avera eCare this month launched its new telehealth education entity the American Board of Telehealth.

Telehealth services will continue to grow in need and urgency even after the COVID-19 pandemic, so it is important that states update their existing laws, according to Peter Kowey, MD, and Thomas Martin, PhD.

Hometown Health Center in Dexter, Maine, will conduct a clinical trial to determine whether telehealth services effectively treat rural opioid addiction patients.

The pandemic has drawn the world's attention toward the need for reliable virtual healthcare technology, an awareness causing many firms to invest large sums in telehealth startups.

One in four Americans over age 50 participated in a virtual medical visit during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, up from 4 percent of older individuals who had a virtual visit with a physician in 2019, according…

Tennessee lawmakers on Aug. 13 passed a bill that would require insurance companies to cover telemedicine services in place of in-person visits when medically necessary, according to the Tennessean.

A study by JAMA Internal Medicine found that healthcare quality and outcomes don’t necessarily correlate with “patient satisfaction”.

Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital's emergency department has selected Rose, a digital mental health platform from Johns Hopkins University, to support the mental health of clinicians treating COVID-19 patients.

RediClinic closed its Texas-area clinic locations to focus on telehealth.

Last week, CipherHealth had a rare opportunity to hear directly from operations, nursing, and patient experience leaders from Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) about their response to the COVID-19 crisis.