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As an emergency medicine physician, Hazar Khidir, MD, was used to only seeing patients once. However, with the uncertainties of COVID-19, Dr. Khidir has begun calling her former patients to check how they are doing, she wrote in an op-ed…
The Michigan Health Endowment Fund is gifting $2.95 million to various healthcare providers in the state to boost telehealth services, according to NBC 25 News.
As medical students take their classes online, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is offering a pandemic course, according to Knox News.
The FCC will open its application portal today to hospitals interested in applying to its $200 million COVID-19 telehealth program.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the state has launched a remote patient-monitoring program and mental health support line with OSF HealthCare and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
Healthcare organizations around the world are facing enormous pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two lawmakers introduced a bill April 10 that would provide $2 billion to expand telehealth and internet connectivity at public and nonprofit healthcare facilities.
The Trump administration, CMS and other federal agencies have issued several new policies to expand the use of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Riverwood Healthcare Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Aitkin, Minn., quickly deployed a telehealth network to offer patients care virtually from their homes, according to a recent American Hospital Association case study.
Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care is using the lessons learned from treating the H1N1 virus in 2009 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a post from the American Medical Association.