Virtual care news, trends and reimbursement updates
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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.
Guthrie, a Sayre, Pa.-based healthcare delivery system, has rolled out its telehealth service for patients in New York and Pennsylvania, according to WETM 18 News.
In a recent piece in The Palm Beach Post, reporter Christine Stapleton examined whether telemedicine can be used to treat recovering addicts.
Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health's national home healthcare agency, Trinity Health At Home, will utilize Plano, Texas-based Vivify Health's technology to bring virtual care to home health patients.
US Acute Care Solutions (USACS) recently replaced its legacy portal for physicians by building a new, modern portal with the low-code development platform from OutSystems.