Telehealth
CMS' new, five-year Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport Model will reimburse ambulance service providers for providing telehealth treatment for Medicare beneficiaries.
Expanded continuum of virtual care services enabled, including access to specialty and complex care; streamlined diagnostic test orders.
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City kicked off 2019 with a significant milestone: its 100,000th virtual visit.
Blum Telehealth teamed up with identity, payments and engagement platform Medxoom to bring new patient engagement and payment services to health systems.
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare selected SOC Telemed as its exclusive telemedicine provider.
The healthcare industry is expected to see virtual care demand outpace ambulatory care volumes by 2020, according to a Forrester report.
Uber Health and ambulance services provider Ambulnz teamed up to enable healthcare providers to order non-emergency medical transportation for their patients.
Vidyo, a provider of real-time video solutions, is integrating its VidyoConnect telemedicine video conferencing solution with the Tyto Care's remote examination device.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs completed more than 1 million video-based telemedicine visits in fiscal year 2018, up 19 percent year over year.
MDLive launched MDLive Go — a program that allows hospital and health system clients to offer patients both asynchronous and synchronous telemedicine visits — Feb. 6.