Telehealth

A U.S. House committee unanimously passed a bill Sept. 18 that would extend the hospital-at-home program and telehealth flexibilities.

TeamHealth sold its virtual care provider platform to Fabric, a healthcare technology company.

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health has partnered with Andor Health to deploy its AI-powered virtual care platform, ThinkAndor, with the goal of expanding access to healthcare for rural populations. 

The utilization of telehealth saw an increase in the West, Northeast and South in June, according to a new report from FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health is launching 24/7 virtual primary care in the hopes of increasing access to healthcare in its market.

Healthcare organizations, along with companies like Amazon, have written letters to Congress and the White House, urging them to ensure continued access to remote prescribing of controlled substances.

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health is expanding its virtual care capabilities across its hospitals.

Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care said the health system will start using technology more "aggressively," The Gazette reported Sept. 7. 

Female physicians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physicians in nonrural areas provide the highest number of telehealth visits, a recent Weill Cornell Medicine study found.

Kaiser Permanente Ventures participated in a $65 million financing round for a virtual care startup focused on home-based patients.