Miramar, Fla.-based telemedicine company MDLive announced Sept. 14 it closed a $50 million crossover equity investment to expand its virtual primary care platform. 

NYU Langone Health and NYU Long Island School of Medicine released a new template on Sept. 10 to assist providers with assessing and triaging patients who may have COVID-19.

While the COVID-19 pandemic reduced structural and policy barriers for telehealth, certain aspects of virtual care, such as payment reimbursement, still need to be updated, according to a Sept. 9 Health Affairs viewpoint article.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington unveiled its new healthcare plan for virtual care on Sept. 10. 

Amwell on Sept. 8 filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its proposed initial public offering, which it priced between $490 million and $560 million. 

The Federal Communications Commission recently published application details on its $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, which aims to enhance telehealth access for low-income Americans and veterans.

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) is a safety-net hospital affiliated with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF Health). They have a largely underinsured, diverse population in terms of ethnic background, languages spoken, and socioeconomic status.

Pulsara, the leading telehealth and communication platform that connects teams across organizations, announced today that the company’s product Pulsara PATIENT has been honored as a 2020 EMS World Innovation Awards Finalist. As one of the most prominent voices in the prehospital emergency medical services community, EMS World employs the Innovation Awards program to recognize the industry’s most groundbreaking products of the year.

HHS on Sept. 3 released the Rural Action Plan, an agencywide assessment of current and upcoming rural healthcare efforts, including increasing technology and innovation via telehealth expansions. 

Ohio Medicaid officials have filed rules to permanently continue telehealth services expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Cleveland.com.

Despite increasing nationally from 2019-20, telehealth claim lines for privately insured individuals dipped 21 percent on a month-to-month basis from May to June this year, according data released Sept. 2 from Fair Health.

HHS, FCC and USDA on Sept. 1 signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on efforts to improve telehealth services and address health disparities in rural areas.

In the year ahead, nearly one-fourth of healthcare leaders anticipate increased telehealth usage to have one of the biggest impacts on the healthcare industry, according to a new Definitive Healthcare report. 

Although telehealth visits increased 300-fold in the early days of the pandemic, they are now flattening out across the U.S., according to data published by the Epic Health Research Network.

Teladoc Health recently announced it is providing free, 24/7 telehealth visits to residents and first responders affected by the wildfires in the Western region of the U.S. as well as those impacted by Hurricane Laura across Texas and the Louisiana coasts.

A Family Video in Kalamazoo, Mich., is offering customers telehealth visits, according to a report from WWMT West Michigan, a CBS affiliate.

The COVID-19 pandemic has crystalized the importance of virtual health solutions in supporting greater efficiency, reducing expenses and improving outcomes, according to Erik Wagner, senior director of global provider strategy at Salesforce.

Tenet Health Central Coast, part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, on Aug. 26 announced a new telehealth emergency room screening option for patients unsure of whether they want to seek medical attention for suspected COVID-19 or other emergency medical conditions. 

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare is moving forward with plans to open a new patient care access center that features a telemedicine-equipped urgent care center, according to an Aug. 24 Hartford Courant report.

Virtual care providers such as Amwell, Teladoc and MDLive are participating in deal activities and pursuing going public in response to widespread telehealth adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Aug. 25 Wall Street Journal report.