Telehealth

In a recent press release, Teladoc announced their partnership with Einstein Healthcare Network.

Columbia-based University of Missouri officials will expand its ECHO Autism program across the United States and as far as Kenya.

The lead plaintiff in a class-action privacy lawsuit filed against MDLive, a Sunrise, Fla.-based telehealth provider, voluntarily dismissed the suit June 2.

Indianapolis-based St. Vincent, part of St. Louis-based Ascension, will open two telemedicine clinics this month to facilitate consultations between kidney transplant patients in underserved areas and St. Vincent transplant physicians.

The Federal Communications Commission's plan to make network neutrality voluntary may exacerbate health disparities, four public health and technology experts wrote in a Health Affairs blog post.

Indiana lawmakers approved telehealth legislation in July 2016, prompting a surge of activity in the virtual healthcare industry throughout the state, the Greensburg Daily News reports. Since then, a school-focused telehealth initiative has taken root, sparking rural Hanover, Ind.-based Southwestern…

eVisit, a Mesa, Ariz.-based telemedicine software company, raised $2 million during its most recent funding round.

U.S. HealthWorks, an operator of occupational healthcare centers, selected American Well to provide telemedicine services.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., launched a telemedicine program to connect its physicians with emergency pediatric patients at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Somerville, N.J.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, R, this weekend signed Senate Bill 1107, expanding patients' access to video telemedicine services throughout the state, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.