Telehealth

Health systems across the world have recognized telehealth as one of the fastest growing solutions to modern problems facing providers and patients. While many organizations may know they should be engaging patients through telehealth, few know as much about how…

Physicians who spend the majority of their time caring for patients through telehealth are part of an emerging medical specialty, two physician leaders from New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian wrote in a Nov. 27 op-ed for JAMA.

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, released a proposal to increase funding for the agency's Rural Health Care Program Nov. 22 as part of his tentative agenda for the agency's December meeting.

Medtronic's Medtronic Care Management Services business launched new telehealth solutions in support of its national contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for home telehealth devices and services.

Smartphone photographs provide a convenient avenue for direct parent-to-clinician teledermatology care, according to recent research published in JAMA Dermatology.

The majority of healthcare executives and providers — 53 percent — either offer or plan to offer second opinion services via telemedicine, according to a Foley & Lardner survey.

The School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Austin is using a robotic nurse to arm students with real-world experience in administering care via telemedicine, according to The Daily Texan.

It sometimes feels as if our country is mired in disaster. From Northern California to Puerto Rico, Houston to the Florida Keys, Americans have experienced an unprecedented string of calamities in the span of just a few months.

The HHS Office of Inspector General plans to conduct an audit of Medicaid services delivered via telecommunications systems, the agency announced earlier this month.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first option for remotely programming cochlear hearing implants Nov. 17.