Telehealth

Nurse-1-1, a startup from serial entrepreneur Michael Sheeley, on Oct. 15 launched an app to connect patients with physician assistants, nurse practitioners and registered nurses via text messages, TechCrunch reports.

Patients have historically been slow to adopt telemedicine — but those who do report strong satisfaction, according to a research letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Apple and medical device company Zimmer Biomet launched a new smartwatch app — and an associated clinical study — to support postoperative recovery for two major surgeries: hip and knee replacements.

Doctor On Demand expanded its senior leadership team with three new appointments.

CVS Health's MinuteClinic launched a new virtual healthcare service in Delaware.

Carla Kriwet, CEO of Connected Care and Health Informatics at Philips, is more than familiar with the opportunities and challenges hospitals face when leveraging health IT across the enterprise.

More employer health plans are offering telemedicine coverage, and employees are increasingly enrolling in plans that cover the service, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Thirty-five percent of patients expressed interest in using a virtual assistant to direct them to the appropriate physician or nurse, according to a Deloitte report.

Remote patient monitoring programs offer multiple clinical and financial benefits, including reducing hospital admissions among patients, according to a new KLAS Research report.

Physicians prescribe patients more antibiotics via telemedicine than during in-person visits, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.