Telehealth

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.

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.