The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Rural Health is collaborating with the VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative to increase access to mental healthcare for rural veterans via telehealth, the agency announced March 6.

Collaboration Focused on Optimizing the Development, Clinical Validation and Usability of Practical AI Algorithms Through the Nuance AI Marketplace  

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will use patient engagement platform Wellpepper's new Marketplace to make its interactive care plans available to other health systems.

Data integration is challenging in health systems as healthcare data is fragmented over dozens or even hundreds of applications.

Healthcare consumers are increasingly turning to virtual health services, with 25 percent of patients reporting they received virtual care services in the previous year, up from 21 percent one year prior, according to a survey released by Accenture.

A team of researchers at the West Lafayette, Ind.-based Purdue University is embarking on a five-year, long-distance study on the prospective surveillance of autism symptom emergence in high-risk infants, which could ultimately inform earlier, more targeted therapies.

American Well selected Bill Conway to serve as general manager of provider solutions.

Cincinnati-based Mercy Health tapped Lighthouse Telehealth, a Toledo, Ohio-based Harbor Behavioral Health subsidiary, to provide 24/7 coverage for behavioral health and substance use disorder patients at Mercy in a partnership that began Feb. 22.

  Intermountain Healthcare, a 22-hospital system in Salt Lake City, launched a virtual hospital services program, called Intermountain Connect Care Pro, Feb. 28.

Teladoc, a provider of virtual care delivery services, expanded its collaboration with Microsoft.