Virtual care news, trends and reimbursement updates
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Gains in broadband internet access are smaller than previously reported, according to tech publication Ars Technica.
AdventHealth Dade City (Fla.), part of AdventHealth system in Altamonte Springs, Fla., added Advanced ICU Care's remote monitoring technology for patients in its intensive care unit.
Minneapolis-based Allina Health and Hayward (Wis.) Area Memorial Hospital launched a telemedicine program geared toward expanding virtual neurology care, Sawyer County Record reports.
Telehealth fraud appears to be on the rise, as more patients are opting into virtual appointments with their physicians via audio and video technology, Legal Reader reports.
Telehealth technology company CirrusMD, which offers a chat-based solution for health plans, raised $15 million in its latest financing round.
Teladoc Health released its earnings results for the first quarter of 2019.
Two Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth hospitals in Georgia are working with Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, Tenn., to provide neurology and stroke care through telemedicine, Chattanoogan reports.
The Florida Senate passed a new bill April 29 that would expand telehealth services from out-of-state providers to Florida residents, Miami Herald reports.
Nine former employees of Nurx, a telemedicine startup based in San Francisco, told The New York Times that the company has habitually ignored or violated state and federal laws surrounding the sale and shipment of prescription medication since its 2015…
Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network implemented a telemedicine program that allows neonatologists at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla to provide remote care to newborn patients at HealthAlliance Hospital.