Telehealth

The ability to work from home with Doctor on Demand, a telehealth provider, has improved work-life balance for 78 percent of the company's employed physicians, according to a Doctor on Demand survey.

Startup telehealth company, Remote Health Solutions, will integrate the U.S. Air Force's patient monitoring app into its existing product portfolio, TechLink reports.

Southwestern District Health Unit, a public health department in North Dakota, will roll out a telepsychiatry program at Dickinson (N.D.) Middle School this fall to provide students with supplemental psychiatric services, The Dickinson Press reports.

University of Alabama at Birmingham is working with the Alabama Department of Public Health to expand telehealth services offered across the state, CBS 42 reports.

Ochsner LSU Health Monroe (La.), an Ochsner Health System hospital, is adding videoconferencing technology and more care training to its intensive care unit telemedicine program, News Star reports.

Planned Parenthood of Arizona is suing the state over its abortion prevention laws, including those that prohibit telemedicine abortions, AZ Central reports.

Reps. TJ Cox, D-Calif., Mike Thompson, D-Calif., Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Earl Carter, R-Ga., introduced legislation that would allow respiratory therapists to serve as telehealth practitioners for Medicare patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Hazard, Ky.-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare System will launch Advanced ICU Care's remote monitoring technology for intensive care unit patients across all 12 of its hospitals.

Animated avatars may be the next big thing in telehealth, helping reduce healthcare costs without jeopardizing patient care or eliminating jobs, according to orthopedic surgeon Mary O'Connor, MD, and cited in an American Medical Association blog post.

Looking beyond automobile manufacturing to tech-enabled transport, Ford Motor Co., says it will expand its medical transportation program to 40 cities in four years, Reuters reports.