Gordon Hospital in Calhoun, Ga., part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System, launched telemetry monitoring services in partnership with Advanced ICU Care.

CMS made a series of suggestions to expand telehealth in its latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program, a 1,473-page proposal released July 12.

The World Telehealth Initiative recently launched as a nonprofit humanitarian group.

Brendan Carr, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, is visiting healthcare facilities and accepting applications for the agency's new connected care pilot program, according to the Memphis Daily News.

Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System opened a telehealth center at a Trinity, Fla.-based YMCA in June as part of an ongoing effort to expand healthcare services in the Tampa Bay community.

Telehealth platform InTouch Health and drug store chain Rite Aid have signed a letter of intent to partner and expand patient access to care via telehealth.

The University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science will use SnapMD's virtual care management platform as part of its telehealth curriculum, the telehealth vendor confirmed July 11.

Brendan Carr, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, on July 11 revealed the agency's plan to establish a $100 million connected care pilot program.

Chelsea Clinton joined the board of San Francisco-based telemedicine startup Nurx, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Laws governing reimbursement often stand in the way of telehealth adoption — either hospitals don't want to offer it over confusion about getting paid or patients don't want to use it over confusion as to who pays.