Telehealth
Cambia Health Solutions, a Portland, Ore.-based health insurer, selected Lemonaid Health to provide its subsidiaries with telehealth services, the vendor confirmed Feb. 20.
A team of students from Charlottesville-based University of Virginia visited Koforidua, Ghana, during the summer to assess the feasibility of establishing a telemedicine program in the region, according to UVA Today.
MyTelemedicine joined forces with PaceMD, a humanitarian organization focused on supporting health initiatives in Latin America, to increase access to telehealth services among Spanish-speaking patients in the U.S. and Mexico.
The Grand Forks-based University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences added telehealth capabilities to its medical education curriculum, according to a Feb. 14 American Medical Association blog post.
MDLive pledged to offer free online behavioral health counseling sessions to those affected by the Feb. 14 shooting at Parkland, Fla.-based Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School through March 31.
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.