Blockchain developers are now exploring how the technology could be used to improve telemedicine, according to TokenPost.

Bismarck-based Children's Advocacy Centers of North Dakota is offering behavioral health telehealth services to children who have been victims of abuse, according to Public News Service.

Philippi, W.Va.-based Broaddus Hospital developed a telehealth program that allows patients with diabetes to teleconference with a dietician or a certified diabetes educator instead of traveling to the hospital for an appointment, The Record Delta reports.

The Health Resources and Services Administration, an HHS agency, awarded Vestal, N.Y.-based Binghamton University's nursing school $2.8 million in funding for telehealth training and technology to serve patients in rural areas, Business Journal News Network reports.

Forty states as well as Washington D.C., have either implemented policies or received awards to increase their state's telemedicine coverage and reimbursement in the past two years, according to the American Telemedicine Association's recent report.

Julesburg, Colo.-based Sedgwick County Health Center partnered with HealthOne Virtual Network, a telehealth provider, to offer virtual care services for neurology and psychiatric patients, Julesburg Advocate reports.

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center used telehealth technology for more than 4,500 patient appointments last year, according to VPR News.

Most physicians (69.5 percent) who show interest working in telemedicine are employed full time in private or provider healthcare organizations, according to a recent Doximity report.  

The USDA awarded $188,000 to Hardin, Mont.-based Bighorn Valley Health Center for telemedicine technology to help expand treatment for opioid addiction, Montana Public Radio reports.

The number of physicians who self-report telemedicine as a skill rose 20 percent each year, from 2015-18, according to Doxmitiy.