Telehealth

Signify, a home health company that recently entered into an agreement to be acquired by CVS, is expanding its in-home diagnostic and preventive services by making them available to customers on Medicare Advantage and Medicaid plans.

Brian O'Shaughnessy, former director of global corporate communications and public affairs for Google, joined telehealth company Hims & Hers. 

Houston-based Children's Memorial Hermann has partnered with telehealth company Hazel Health to provide outpatient pediatric care to K-12 students in Houston. 

A new study published in the American Journal of Managed Care showed that 77 percent of physicians would like to continue using telehealth to treat patients with opioid use disorder.

The use of telehealth is effective at reducing odds of no-show clinic visits by more than two-thirds for surgical patients. 

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has opened two new telehealth sites for veterans in Montana. 

Penn Medicine's telemedicine-driven fertility program cut treatment wait times almost in half from 97 days to 41 days, according to research published in NEJM Catalyst. 

Seventy-percent of physicians in a Yale survey said they would be likely to use telehealth to treat opioid use disorder patients after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Below are five hospitals and health systems that rolled out or announced new telehealth services since Sept. 16. 

A pilot program at NYU Langone is using telemedicine to match eligible lung cancer patients with supportive care physicians at Perlmutter Cancer Center.