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Nurx, a San Francisco-based telemedicine startup that sells prescription drugs online, will make its services available to Iowa residents.
Shriners Hospitals for Children — Chicago is partnering with Angola, Ind.-based Cameron Memorial Community Hospital to offer telehealth care to pediatric patients with orthopedic and spine conditions, the Herald Republican reports.
The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill that will allow out-of-state providers to extend their telehealth services to Florida residents, Proactive Investors reports.
Texas A&M University Health Science Center in Bryan is teaming up with Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes, a telehealth teaching model for clinicians, on a program to address the opioid epidemic.
Lubbock-based Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center received a nearly $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to increase its telemedicine services in rural areas of the state, KVIA, an ABC affiliate, reports.
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.