Virtual care news, trends and reimbursement updates
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Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System has teamed up with local hotels and resorts to offer its telemedicine services, dubbed MemorialDOCNow, to hotel guests and tourists, according to Hollywood Gazette.
CMS released a report to Congress Nov. 15 detailing telehealth utilization in Medicare.
Microsoft has partnered with Native Network, a telecommunications company focused on connecting Native American tribes with one another, to deliver broadband internet access to rural communities in Montana and Washington.
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine-based Mayo Regional Hospital and Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock completed the go-live for its tele-emergency program Oct. 29, according to The Piscataquis Observer.
With the end of the year around the corner, hospital and health system leaders are crunching numbers in hopes of being in the black.
The American Medical Association adopted a policy to bolster internet access across the country.
Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health entered into an agreement with Royal Philips to deploy its eICU program.
While telehealth offers a solution to support patients between physician visits, a few key challenges stand in the way of significant market growth, according to a report from market research firm Chilmark Research.
Telehealth has the potential to support patients in rural areas where physician shortages may make it difficult to access healthcare services. However, rural residents have not been as receptive to remote care services as their urban counterparts, according to a…
Donna Bell, MD, a Florida-based OB-GYN and primary care physician who practices via telemedicine, is claiming her credentials were stolen in a scheme to defraud Medicare, according to Fox 4.