After their recent partnership, telemedicine provider Doctor On Demand and Humana are launching a new health plan called On Hand, which is focused on comprehensive virtual primary care.

Large health systems consider remote patient monitoring and telehealth as their top information technology priorities, according to a Vidyo report.

Vail (Colo.) Health will provide $60 million in support of a new nonprofit collaborative that aims to improve access to mental health services.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute awarded $5 million to New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University School of Medicine to research telemedicine training measures for providers who treat pregnant women with opioid use disorders.

Akos MD, a telehealth provider, will expand the number of its kiosks for virtual care appointments at additional Arizona-based Safeway grocery stores this year, AZ Central reports.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health added remote monitoring technology from Advanced ICU Care, an intensive care unit telemedicine provider, for patients at Baptist Medical Center Nassau.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health opened its new emergency room telepsychiatry center April 18 at Lenox Health Greenwich Village hospital in New York City.

Ro, a direct-to-consumer telehealth app for pharmacy services, is valued at $500 million, TechCrunch reports.

Best Buy is now selling telehealth technology company Tyto Care's portable patient examination device for virtual appointments.

Visibly, an eye care telemedicine company, filed a lawsuit last week against Indiana agencies that enforce the statewide ban on ocular telemedicine, Indy Star reports.

pMD, a mobile telehealth platform, released a new HIPAA-compliant feature that allows healthcare providers to securely communicate through video chat.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System partnered with Tyto Care to offer patients access to a remote patient examination device developed for virtual appointments.

More physicians (22 percent) are starting to use telehealth services to see patients, which is an increase from 5 percent of physicians in 2015, according to an American Well survey.

Organizations involved in the mergers and acquisitions sweeping healthcare find themselves facing a daunting challenge: lack of standardization.

The National Center for the Advancement of Translational Sciences awarded a $3.6 million grant to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston in support of pediatric telehealth research.

Fifty-one percent of internal medicine specialists work in a practice that has implemented at least one telehealth service, according to a American College of Physicians survey.

Telehealth provider GlobalMed appointed Shannon Murphy, a former Microsoft executive, as chief technology officer.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System announced April 11 it received a $6 million donation toward its IT and telemedicine-enabled plastic and reconstructive surgery suite.

Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health began rolling out 24/7 virtual behavioral health visits in emergency departments across its network of hospitals in March, according to a report from local news station Fox 59. 

Top executives from five telemedicine companies were charged for their alleged participation in a $1.2 billion healthcare fraud scheme. Their actions could amplify concerns regarding malpractice in telemedicine, according to a Business Insider report.