Telehealth

Amwell appointed Robert Shepardson to serve as its new CFO and head of mergers and acquisitions, effective Oct. 31. 

Americans are witnessing a foundational change in the way we experience medical care. While patient treatment has evolved in recent decades, thanks especially to the development of cutting-edge imaging and innovative treatments, the industry is poised to transform to such…

States must improve how they track telehealth to treat behavioral health among Medicaid enrollees, as most states don't monitor fraud or measure how virtual visits improve patient care and access, HHS' Office of Inspector General said in a Sept. 21…

Telemedicine, hospital-at-home programs and artificial intelligence will be key to improving healthcare access and affordability in the future, according to Gianrico Farrugia, MD, president and CEO of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.

The Clinic, a joint virtual health venture between the Cleveland Clinic and Amwell, is teaming up with ReviveHealth to enable ReviveHealth members to get virtual second opinions for more than 550 specialties from Cleveland Clinic.

Below are five legal battles that have been filed by the Justice Department for their connection to telehealth fraud.

As the pandemic boosted telehealth usage, four payers have solidified their virtual care strategies.

Even the most tech-savvy generation is divided on the effectiveness of virtual visits, according to an Aug. 19 study published in Telemedicine and e-Health. 

Below is a list of 23 new telehealth companies and services that were rolled out in 2021.

In 2020, nearly 80 percent of physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth, compared to only 25.1 percent two years earlier, according to a recent American Medical Association analysis.