The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a bill, which would expand telehealth services to Medicare stroke patients, would increase direct spending by $180 million over the 2018 to 2027 period.

In a recent press release from HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, today announced its cloud-based HID FARGO® Connect™ solution has won the 2017 Campus Safety Best Awards in the Access Control & Identity Management category. As the world’s first…

Predictive analytics models have long been an asset in the healthcare industry thanks to the ability to forecast future events, risk and utilization.  Their predictive power will continue to grow as they incorporate advanced technologies such as cognitive computing.

The Medical Society of Delaware entered into its first partnership with a telemedicine company, The News Journal reports.

The trend of shifting financial risk from payers to providers through value-based reimbursement models — accountable care organizations, bundled payments and capitation — is driving healthcare organizations to engage in clinical practices that improve patient health at the population level.

Publix, a Lakeland, Fla.-based grocery store chain, is partnering with Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System to offer retail pharmacies at a number of BayCare's hospitals, as well as walk-in care centers and health screening stations at Publix stores.

Westerly (R.I.) Hospital connected with Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System's InSight Tele-ICU center to implement telemedicine capabilities in its intensive care unit, the hospital announced Sept. 25.

StoneSprings Hospital Center in Dulles, Va., created a telehealth program that enables access to neonatal intensive care unit specialists from Reston (Va.) Hospital Center.

Thank you for your submission to the "250+ telehealth companies to know | 2018" list. Nominations will close April 15, 2018 and the list will be posted in June 2018.

Thirty-six percent of emergency department patients transferred to another facility for traumatic injury were later discharged without admission, observation or procedures, according to a study published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.