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.

The U.S. Department of the Army intends to award a $80,973 sole-source contract to Fitbit, under which the agency's Medical Research and Materiel Command Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center will have access to 540 of the company's activity trackers.

SnapMD, a telehealth startup, named Deric Frost its chief revenue officer.

MediSprout linked its V2MD telehealth platform, which connects physicians and patients through video conferencing, with Amazon's artificial intelligence-powered voice assistant Alexa, Digital Journal reports.

Telehealth company MDLive plans to open an office in Chicago in early 2019, the Chicago Tribune reports.