Cleveland Clinic released its COVID-19 Digital Health Playbook, including a guide for healthcare organizations to rapidly scale their telehealth offerings.

Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare has deployed more than 650 tech devices to expand telehealth visits across its network, conserve personal protective equipment and curb the spread of COVID-19.

The coronavirus response has boosted telehealth use considerably, and many investors are banking on telehealth as the way of the future.

The Federal Communications Commission approved six funding applications totaling more than $3 million to providers, including Mount Sinai Health System, UPMC and Ochsner Clinic Foundation, through its new COVID-19 telehealth program. 

To help expand access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic, several insurance companies have loosened restrictions on telehealth claims for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related care.

Humana recently expanded access to more than 150 telehealth and other virtual services such as virtual check-ins, e-visits and telephone evaluations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Even before the CDC recommended that healthcare entities consider alternatives to face-to-face appointments and made it easier to bill for telehealth visits, our hospital planned to explore the technology in 2020.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced on April 13 that it has processed 180,000 telehealth claims since expanding coverage for virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As an emergency medicine physician, Hazar Khidir, MD, was used to only seeing patients once. However, with the uncertainties of COVID-19, Dr. Khidir has begun calling his former patients to check how they are doing, he wrote in an op-ed for WBUR.

The Michigan Health Endowment Fund is gifting $2.95 million to various healthcare providers in the state to boost telehealth services, according to NBC 25 News.

As medical students take their classes online, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is offering a pandemic course, according to Knox News.

The FCC will open its application portal today to hospitals interested in applying to its $200 million COVID-19 telehealth program. 

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the state has launched  a remote patient-monitoring program and mental health support line with OSF HealthCare and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

Two lawmakers introduced a bill April 10 that would provide $2 billion to expand telehealth and internet connectivity at public and nonprofit healthcare facilities.

The Trump administration, CMS and other federal agencies have issued several new policies to expand the use of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Riverwood Healthcare Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Aitkin, Minn., quickly deployed a telehealth network to offer patients care virtually from their homes, according to a recent American Hospital Association case study.

Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care is using the lessons learned from treating the H1N1 virus in 2009 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a post from the American Medical Association.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UnitedHealthcare will reimburse claims for telehealth services for service dates from March 18 until June 18.

Amid the new coronavirus pandemic, U.S. hospitals and providers are racing to find new ways to deliver care to their communities without furthering the spread of COVID-19. They are turning to telehealth, among other strategies, to provide care without endangering patients or themselves.

Walgreens added new telehealth providers and a COVID-19 risk assessment tool to its Find Care platform to help coordinate care for patients during the pandemic.