Telehealth

Toledo, Ohio-based health system ProMedica and its affiliated health insurance provider Paramount Health Care have launched ProMedica OnDemand.

A study investigating whether remote physicians can perform physical examinations as effectively as on-site physicians in an emergency room has found promising results, according to a TytoCare news release.

Medtronic Care Management Services — which has supplied the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs with telehealth solutions since 2011 — has been awarded another national contract from the VA for its home telehealth technologies.

Westbury, N.Y.-based Northwell Health Home Care Network is working with Hoboken, N.J.-based Health Recovery Solutions to expand home care patients' access to care.

Specialists On Call, a telemedicine provider and portfolio company of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has acquired NeuroCall, a tele-stroke and teleneurology company.

A study in Journal of Aging and Health investigated whether using human coaching in conjunction with a digital health program would help reduce patients' risk of diabetes.

As part of a new pilot program, urologists at University of Virginia are conducting bladder cancer screening exams via telemedicine, according to News 5 WCYB.

A medical school in Jonesboro, Ark., is teaching first-year students about how to use telemedicine, according to Region 8 News, an ABC affiliate.

Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health System has been awarded a $290,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Health.

Upper Midwest Telehealth Resource Center, a federally funded program led by the Indiana Rural Health Association, has entered a partnership with the consultancy TeleHealth Solutions.