Direct-to-consumer telemedicine services are a safe method for receiving prescriptions for oral contraceptives, even when relative and absolute contraindications are present, a new study suggests.

Stillwater-based Oklahoma State University will begin offering opioid addiction treatment services through telemedicine, Public Radio Tulsa reports.

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville, part of Arlington-based Texas Health Resources, now offers telehealth-based 24/7 care for sexual assault victims, according to Glen Rose Reporter.  

Jerseyville, Ill.-based Jersey Community Hospital launched a telemedicine hospitalist program to help address onsite staffing challenges.

University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City tapped Charlottesville, Va.-based Locus Health to provide patients and their families with software to monitor vital health information from home.

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock will extend its telemedicine services to provide critical care neonatal services to nonprofit, community hospital Littleton (N.H.) Regional Healthcare patients.

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.