Telehealth

Westborough, Massachusetts-based EMR provider eClinicalWorks has added telehealth capabilities to its mobile app.

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health plans to expand its Sanford Virtual Infusion Project, a program that provides remote chemotherapy infusion oversight, according to The Daily Globe.

The Fulton County Public Health Department in New York state will roll out a pilot telehealth program in July, the Leader Herald reports.

The American Telemedicine Association launched a task force to investigate sustainable virtual care practices. 

Bennington-based Southwestern Vermont Medical Center has initiated a telemedicine program with Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

Roughly 19 percent of consumers have used a virtual provider, although interest in the capability is growing, according to an Advisory Board survey.

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, introduced a bipartisan bill that would incentive non-rural hospitals serving rural patients to expand their telehealth services.

Teladoc entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Best Doctors, a medical consultation company focused on complex and costly medical issues.

The VA Northern Indiana Health Care System facility in Fort Wayne connected its intensive care unit and emergency room to a Department of Veterans Affairs teleICU hub in Cincinnati June 14, The Journal Gazette reports.

Most (92 percent) rural diabetes patients who received telehealth services reported they were "very satisfied" with their care, a new study found.