Telehealth

Winston Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health announced plans to pilot a remote patient monitoring program that allows bariatric patients to receive ongoing or follow-up care related to their procedure or condition from their home. 

HHS announced it will release $16.3 million in grants for family planning groups to expand their telehealth services and infrastructure. 

Telehealth providers often struggle with several key problems, including accessibility of the platform, regulatory and infrastructure barriers and sharing data. A report from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, released May 10, highlights those key challenges and provides solutions for…

The increased adoption of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic raised the rate of completed primary care visits for Black patients by 10 percent, according to a study published May 2 in Telemedicine and e-Health. 

Amwell has been growing its number of providers and patients in the first quarter of 2022 as it released its results from its first financial report of the year May 9. 

While telehealth and at-home health screening are popular with employees, many of them have issues with data privacy and who the results will be shared with, according to the 2022 Health at Work survey from Quest Diagnostics. 

Telehealth startup Cerebral has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors after allegations of overprescribing controlled substances, The Wall Street Journal reported May 7.

The expansion of Medicare coverage for telehealth visits during the pandemic increased use among socioeconomically disadvantaged beneficiaries in both rural and urban areas, according to a study published May 2 in Health Affairs.

NRC Health, the leading provider of in-depth customer intelligence in healthcare, recently released its 2022 Healthcare Consumer Pediatric Trends Report to deliver insights into how parental needs have shifted. Culled from millions of data points captured in hundreds of thousands of consumer…

From its $6.6 billion impairment charge for its Livongo acquisition to inking a deal with Amazon Alexa, here are five of the most recent healthcare moves from Teladoc as reported by Becker's: