Telehealth

With the shift to digital and telehealth that accelerated during the pandemic, providers have to accurately diagnose and treat diseases in patients who they may only see over a computer screen.

Curative, a startup that offers testing and telehealth services, has laid off 109 employees, according to a state filing in California.

Colorado's Department of Corrections telehealth program for inmates has grown since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it was primarily used for psychiatry, according to Sept. 20 reporting in GCN.

Odessa (Texas) College is partnering with telehealth company META to provide mental health counseling services to students.

Zócalo Health, a Latino-focused telehealth company founded by two Amazon veterans, has received $5 million in seed funding to launch its virtual primary care services.

Telehealth company LifeMD is naming former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal to its board of directors.

Dallas-based White Rock Medical Center has partnered with telemedicine developer SHL Telemedicine to use its technology to conduct pre-surgery physicals in remote locations. 

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine has surpassed 1.5 million telehealth visits since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.

Researchers have created a "digital mask" they say could help keep patients' images private in EHRs and during telehealth visits, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found that across nearly 50,000 visits, pediatric patients continued to use telemedicine even with the reopening of outpatient clinics a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Sept. 16 study…