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Telemedicine startup 98point6, which has raised $247 million to date, is searching for a new CEO after its co-founder and chief executive Robbie Cape abruptly left the company Sept. 1, Geekwire reported. 

Conducting outpatient visits via telehealth when possible and measuring the average greenhouse gas emission per outpatient visit can significantly reduce the healthcare industry's carbon footprint, the American Medical Association reported Sept. 1.

Membership-based primary care network One Medical on Sept.1 completed its acquisition of Iora Health, a tech-powered primary care provider serving Medicare patients. 

HHS awarded $10.7 million from the American Rescue Plan to integrate telehealth services into pediatric mental healthcare access and services across the country, the department announced Aug. 27. 

Below is a list of five hospitals and health systems that rolled out or announced new telehealth services in the past five months.

Amwell on Aug. 31 announced it finalized its acquisitions of two digital health startups: digital mental health platform SilverCloud Health and automated virtual health company Conversa Health. 

Small hospitals are least likely to have telemedicine, though they're also the ones that would benefit most from it, two physicians and a researcher at Boston-based Harvard Medical School argued in an opinion published Aug. 27 in JAMA Health Forum.

Telemedicine and pharmacy discount company GoodRx is offering free telehealth visits to Tennessee residents through the end of Labor Day weekend in response to the flooding devastating the state.

Telemedicine website SpeakWithAnMD.com, which is partnered with anti-vaccine group America's Frontline Doctors, has been fielding an increasing number of requests for ivermectin as misinformation spreads online claiming the drug is a miracle cure for COVID-19, NBC reported Aug. 27. 

The Federal Communications Commission on Aug. 26 awarded $41.9 million in funding to 62 healthcare organizations as part of its $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program.

When the pandemic began, most states, along with CMS, waived telehealth restrictions requiring clinicians to be licensed in the state where their patient lives. Now, some states are discontinuing those waivers, meaning many patients receiving telehealth care from a clinician in another state may have to find a new care plan.

While the hospital at home is now receiving a great deal of attention, due in part to COVID-19, "the model has been in existence for quite some time," Doug Lang, VP of client growth at Health Recovery Solutions, said. "This isn't a novel idea; it is a well-proven model." The hospital at home has been used in other countries for years and hospitals across many states are exploring the concept.

Older Americans use musculoskeletal telehealth programs more than younger people, though pain outcomes are similar across all generations, according to a study published in Frontiers of Digital Health.

For many patients, care has been restricted to the four walls of a hospital. With COVID-19, however, those boundaries have blurred, and health systems are finding innovative ways to serve individuals where they are.

Salim Saiyed, MD, vice president and chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC, will serve as course director of the American Board of Telehealth's new teleprimary care certificate program. 

The Biden administration is investing more than $19 million into telehealth services in rural and underserved communities through a series of initiatives, HHS announced Aug. 18. 

Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health and TytoCare are partnering to enable remote medical exams with a handheld exam kit provided to the patient.

Researchers from Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine conducted a study in August to determine if the costs hospitals pay for telehealth visits differ from in-person visits.

Telehealth fraud is costing the federal government billions of dollars. Physicians and telehealth company employees have been connected to several kickback schemes and making fraudulent Medicaid and Medicare claims, according to an Aug. 12 National Law Review report.