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Teladoc lays off 6% of non-clinician staff
Virtual care company Teladoc is laying off 6 percent of its staff, or 300 positions, in its non-clinician workforce, MarketWatch reported Jan. 18. -
South Carolina hospital opens new telehealth center
Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Hospital is opening a new telehealth center through a partnership with pharmacy chain Publix. -
3 health systems implementing telehealth programs
Despite telehealth utilization continuing to slip, health systems are still taking advantage of ways to treat patients remotely. -
San Francisco VA Health System taps remote monitoring partner
The San Francisco VA Health Care System has partnered with health IT company CareView Communications to implement new remote monitoring technology across its VA hospitals. -
National telehealth utilization fell 3.7% in October
National telehealth utilization declined by 3.7 percent in October, according to Fair Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. -
Teladoc revises 2022 Q4 revenue projections
Teladoc released revised quarterly guidance narrowing its revenue range to an estimate between $633 million and $640 million for the fourth quarter and to $2.403 billion to $2.41 billion for 2022. -
Intermountain, Omada partner on virtual diabetes care
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare's value-based care subsidiary, Castell, has partnered with virtual chronic care provider Omada Health to offer virtual diabetes care and prevention to patients. -
CMS rolls out indicator to help patients find providers who offer telehealth
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has rolled out a new telehealth indicator that helps beneficiaries and caregivers find clinicians who provide telehealth services. -
Teladoc rolls out new integrated healthcare app
Teladoc has rolled out a new app that integrates services for primary care, mental health and chronic condition management. -
Study: Telehealth increased mental healthcare during pandemic
Mental health treatment appears to have increased as a result of expanded telehealth use during the pandemic, a Jan. 6 JAMA Health Forum study found. -
NIH to pilot program offering free COVID-19 testing, telehealth + treatment
The Biden administration has launched a telehealth pilot program that will test and treat patients for COVID-19 from their homes. -
Samsung looks to bring telehealth to TVs
Samsung is looking to connect clinicians and patients through TVs with the Samsung Telemedicine app, CNET reported Jan. 3. -
UNC Health Increased Mobile Patient Engagement by Encouraging Vendor Partnerships
UNC Health, based in Chapel Hill, is a not-for-profit integrated health care system owned by the state of North Carolina. -
NYC startup could become first telehealth company to unionize
Resilience Lab, a New York City-based startup that matches clients with remote therapists, could become the first telehealth company to unionize after employees petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to join DC 37, the Gothamist reported Dec. 29. -
Former congressman lobbies for continued telehealth prescription of controlled substances
Bart Stupak, a former U.S. representative serving Northern Michigan, is lobbying to let online telehealth startups continue to prescribe controlled substances, Bloomberg reported Dec. 27. -
Telehealth company to pay $45M for outsourcing heart monitoring to India
BioTelemetry, now a Royal Phillips company, agreed to pay $44.875 million to settle allegations that the company improperly billed Medicare by outsourcing heart monitoring services to India between 2013 and 2022. -
4 COVID-19 telehealth updates
The COVID-19 pandemic revolutionized telehealth, and many patients continue to seek out COVID-19 care from the comfort of their own homes. -
3 health systems implementing telehealth programs
Becker's has reported on three hospitals or health systems implementing telehealth programs since Dec. 7: -
Medicare telehealth utilization: 7 trends to know
Only 15 percent of patients who were eligible for Medicare fee-for-service telehealth used the service in the second quarter of 2022, according to a Dec. 15 telehealth utilization report from CMS. -
Tele-behavioral health reduces the cost of mental illnesses
Mental health disorders are not isolated — they have far-reaching effects that drive up costs for both patients and providers.
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