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Global/Georgia Partnership for Telehealth joined forces with Trapollo, a provider of remote patient monitoring solutions.
New mergers in the healthcare space — like this week's $69 billion Aetna and CVS takeover — may give telemedicine its long-awaited, and much-deserved, boost, according to an analysis by CNBC health and technology reporter Christina Farr.
Robert C. Bollinger, MD, a professor of infectious diseases at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and founder of mHealth company emocha, laid out four reasons telemedicine can help address the opioid epidemic in an op-ed for The Hill.
Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said during a speech on aging and technology in Washington, D.C., Nov. 30, his proposal to reverse Obama-era net neutrality regulations has the potential to support access to telemedicine.
Telepsychiatry services will soon be an option for patients at Mercy Medical Center-Centerville (Iowa), according to Daily Iowegian.
Teladoc reported record growth Monday, noting its services expanded more than 100 percent in the hospital and health system market in 2017.
MDLive, a Sunrise, Fla.-based telemedicine provider, launched Sophie, an artificial intelligence-powered health assistant chatbot, the company announced Nov. 29.
St. Louis-based SSM Health has introduced telepharmacy services at several locations in Wisconsin, the health system announced Nov. 30.