Telehealth

NewYork-Presbyterian launched the NewYork-Presbyterian IT-Innovation center in 2015 to centralize the health system's telehealth efforts.

UW Medicine will establish a telehealth consultation center for mental health and substance abuse patients as part of the Seattle-based health system's $225 million UW Medicine Behavioral Health Teaching Facility.

Tacoma, Wash.-based CHI Franciscan has made a dedication to innovation through the launch of its virtual hospital, which has cut wait times and improved outcomes. Within the virtual hospital, the internal medicine program has reduced hospitalists' response time for routine…

While telehealth and remote patient monitoring can improve rural individuals' access to healthcare, these virtual care services are "very much dependent" on broadband internet access, according to Karen Rheuban, MD, director of Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Center for Telehealth. 

The Veterans Health Administration 2016 telehealth initiative to distribute video-enabled tablets to veterans with mental healthcare access barriers appears to have increased overall continuity of mental health services, according to a recent study published in Psychiatry Online.

Humana is testing a virtual care app with its Medicare Advantage members, according to a Sept. 17 news release.

Texas Health Aetna, a health plan jointly owned by Texas Health Resources and Aetna, will begin offering more than 100,000 Northern Texas-based members free behavioral health services through its virtual care platform.

Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, N.M., recently acquired telemedicine neurology equipment to diagnose a stroke more quickly in emergency department patients, Silver City Daily Press reports. 

A San Diego-based physician who received a heart transplant in 2017 now treats patients through telemedicine after he was restricted from providing in-person care, local ABC affiliate KGTV reports.

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health deployed its new digital urgent care clinic for patients to access entirely online, local CBS affiliate WHP-TV reports.