Telehealth

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual call for distance learning and telemedicine grant proposals will close July 17.

Only 15 percent of family physicians have used telehealth services, according a study in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

The Congressional Budget Office unveiled its direct spending estimate for the Creating High‐Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act of 2017.

The majority (94.7 percent) of women who undergo telemedicine abortions are able to terminate their pregnancy without surgical intervention, according to a new study out of University of Texas at Austin.

OCHIN, a national nonprofit health IT, research and innovation organization, has added the California Telehealth Network to its family of companies.

As hospitals look for cost-efficient ways to expand access to care and satisfy consumers' preferences for on-demand healthcare, many organizations are realizing the value of telehealth. More than three-quarters of hospitals and health systems — 76 percent — either have…

Jacksonville, Ill.-based Passavant Area Hospital, an affiliate of Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health System, launched remote telemetry services with Advanced ICU Care, a telehealth and patient monitoring provider.

Reimbursement from Medicare and inadequate telehealth parity laws are the biggest challenges to telemedicine programs that have not been addressed, according to the 2017 U.S. Telemedicine Industry Benchmark Survey from Reach Health, a telemedicine software company.

Doctor On Demand, a San Francisco-based telemedicine provider, partnered with two laboratories — LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics — to provide consumers with diagnostic services.

MDLive, a Sunrise, Fla.-based telemedicine provider, filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit, sparking debate over privacy expectations in direct-to-consumer health apps, according to GovInfoSecurity.com.