Telehealth

Timothy Peck, MD, took an unusual career path to found his telemedicine company, Call9 — he moved from Silicon Valley to a nursing home in New York, reports CNBC.

Penn Medicine, the Philadelphia-based health system of the University of Pennsylvania, recently opened the Penn Medicine Center for Connected Care to centralize its telehealth activities.

Although telehealth has been around for years, patients aren't always aware of the array of virtual services available to them. In short: It's up to health systems to make telehealth capabilities known.

Even though 70 percent of health consumers rate their telemedicine experience as very good or excellent, actual utilization still lags, with only about 6 percent of consumers using the services, according to the "2017 National Consumer Survey" commissioned by Professional…

An endocrinology telehealth clinic successfully cut down travel time while decreasing glucose variability among Type 1 diabetes patients, according to a study published by the CDC on Jan. 25.

The Utah House Education Committee endorsed legislation to establish a two-year telemental health pilot program to support children in public schools, according to the Deseret News.

The American Telemedicine Association appointed Ann Mond Johnson its CEO, effective March 5.

Daniel Barchi. CIO of NewYork-Presbyterian (New York City). Mr. Barchi became CIO of NewYork-Presbyterian on Dec. 1, 2015, taking on responsibility for the health system’s IT department. He led the rollout of NewYork-Presbyterian’s telehealth program in 2016, which allows patients to…

Virta Health, a San Francisco-based startup that brands itself as an online clinic to "safely and sustainably reverse Type 2 diabetes," released one-year results of a study into its treatment model Feb. 7.

This past Friday, President Trump signed a new budget deal with several provisions that loosen Medicare restrictions on telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement.