Telehealth

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.

The U.K. National Health Service launched a free 24-hour telemedicine service called GP at Hand, the BBC reports.

Telehealth specialist Michael P. Adcock testified on the importance of broadband at a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet hearing Nov. 7.

The Utah Education and Telehealth Network, a program established by the Utah State Legislature in the 1990s, held a ribbon-cutting for its remodeled broadband network operations center Nov. 9.