Telehealth

Cigna's Medicare Advantage arm, Cigna-HealthSpring, contracted with rideshare provider Lyft for nonemergent medical transportation services in the District of Columbia in May.

TigerText, provider of the nation’s most broadly adopted secure messaging solution, has introduced TigerFlow Enterprise, a new clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) platform offering that is set to revolutionize the way care teams work and interact with patient data across…

The Department of Veterans Affairs is rolling out a pilot telehealth program that would use tablets and cloud services from AWS GovCloud to treat patients with non-healing wounds, which costs the U.S. nearly $50 billion each year, according to a VA…

Saber Healthcare Group, which includes 111 facilities in six states, is partnering with TeleCare Partners Group to deploy its first telemedicine program.

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.