Telehealth

Maryland has begun offering Medicaid enrollees a free telehealth app that connects them with emergency room physicians, according to WDVM.

Riverside (Calif.) University Health System will partner with the consulting firm TeleHealth Solutions to establish telehealth services at five regional correctional facilities.

It has been one year since New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian rolled out telehealth services on its NYP OnDemand platform, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Emme Deland writes in a New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst blog post.

Baltimore-based Sheppard Pratt Health System will expand its telemedicine services thanks to a $500,000 grant from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, ABC-2 News reports.

Telehealth has been around for decades, but it has only really gathered speed in adoption in the past five years.

Astronauts on NASA's International Space Station use telemedicine to reach healthcare services, particularly during long-duration exploratory missions, according to the Harvard Business Review.

Rickard I. Levin, MD, joined the advisory board for the open-access digital journal Telehealth and Medicine Today.

To optimize treatment, physicians should integrate remote visualization solutions into their telemedicine practices, writes Stephen Wheat, director of HPC Pursuits at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in an op-ed for HPC Wire.

One-third of women and one-sixth of men in the U.S. experience at least one incident of sexual violence during their lifetime, according to an April 2017 report out of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. These victims…

The Department of Veterans Affairs Midwest Health Care Network will share its remote intensive care unit capabilities with the Air Force Medical Operations Agency.