Telehealth

MDLive selected Michael Farrell to serve as senior vice president and general manager of its hospitals and health systems business.

The U.S. Navy conducted its first telemedicine consultations from a hospital ship out at sea. It used technology developed by GlobalMed.

A PhD candidate at the Australia-based Melbourne School of Engineering developed a pair of "smart socks" to improve remote physical therapy.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a U.S. Department of Defense agency tasked with developing emerging technologies for the military, awarded Kryptowire a $5.1 million contract to manage smartphone sensor data as part of its health monitoring program.

Avizia, a company focused on deploying telehealth services systemwide, and Aligned Telehealth, an onsite and telehealth behavioral healthcare services provider, entered into a partnership.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services and NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst teamed up in February to debut a telehealth program for female patients at the Rikers Island (N.Y.) prison.

A report from HHS' Office of Inspector General found nearly 31 percent of claims submitted between 2014 and 2015 did not meet the Medicare conditions for payment for telehealth services, which resulted in $3.7 million in excess payments.

Staff Sgt. John Girtman is deployed overseas with the U.S. Air Force, but was still able to see his newborn son at Orem, Utah-based Timpanogos Regional Hospital thanks to webcams in the NICU bay, according to ABC News.

Planned Parenthood's remote sex education program, called Chat/Text, hosted its 1 millionth conversation earlier this month.

Two telemedicine-related provisions were included in the proposed "Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018," a draft bill sponsored by Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., according to JD Supra.