FirstCare Health Plans teamed up with MDLive, giving its members with access to a new telemedicine program.

Canopy Health, a physician- and hospital-owned medical alliance, partnered with American Well to leverage its web and mobile software development kit to provide telehealth services.

Tampa, Fla.-based Shriners Hospitals for Children repurposed its telehealth technology to allow pediatric patients at four of its facilities to video chat with an off-site "Santa Claus" earlier this month.

Emory Healthcare hospitals in Atlanta are using an electronic intensive care unit that lets physicians and nurses in Australia communicate with physicians and patients via televisions, the American Medical Association reports.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs collaborated with Walmart to provide telehealth services.

Telehealth has seen growing acceptance among providers and legislators in the past year. However, adoption has slowed as many health insurers don't cover the service, according to a report from national law firm Epstein Becker Green.

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T-Mobile will provide 70,000 lines of wireless service to Veterans Affairs Department physicians, nurses, social workers and crisis hotline staff as part of a new partnership aimed at expanding veterans' access to health services.

Nurx, a telemedicine startup based in San Francisco, now offers direct-to-consumer HPV testing kits, TechCrunch reports.