Telehealth

The pediatrics department at Sacramento-based UC Davis Health received a $2 million grant from HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to study whether a telemedicine program will improve quality of care for children with disabilities, the hospital announced Nov.…

Amerigroup will cover telehealth services through LiveHealth Online for members of its five Medicare Advantage plans in Texas beginning in 2018, the payer announced Nov. 13.

EpicMD, a company offering cloud-based telehealth and telemedicine technology, selected Jack Karabees to serve as president and vice president of sales.

The majority of healthcare executives and providers — 81 percent — report interest in telemedicine as a method to expand their digital health services, according to a Foley & Lardner survey.

So how are these seemingly unrelated topics Cloud and Value Based Payments related? Both of these things are happening in the healthcare industry. Is one affecting the other? I would say yes.

For the last two years, Eric Weintraub, MD, a psychiatrist with the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, has defied federal law by providing treatment for opioid addiction via telemedicine to patients at a halfway house in Hagerstown,…

A Government Accountability Office review of the Department of Defense's telehealth offerings found the agency has been slow to expand its virtual visit services.

Nomad Health, a New York City-based technology company focused on healthcare staffing, is expanding its online jobs marketplace to the telemedicine space.

Dictum Health unveiled Ver-GoClinic, a portable telehealth case that traveling physicians can use in ad-hoc clinics or remote settings, such as schools, occupational health facilities, correctional facilities, airplanes and ships. 

WellCare of Nebraska, a subsidiary of WellCare Health Plans, rolled out a free text message program dedicated toward new mothers, the payer announced Nov. 2.