Medical professional talking to patient (Green Shoot Media photo). With the widespread adoption of digital communication tools and the increasing demand for convenient and accessible health care ...
As telehealth expands, structural barriers will likely continue to topple, but only if the industry does so in a compliant and ethical manner.
Telehealth needs a major refresh. Just this week, retail juggernaut Walmart announced it is shuttering its virtual care business. Not long before that, Optum announced the closing of Optum Virtual ...
Across the board, physicians are interested in working in telehealth — whether they’re young, close to retirement, or simply feeling overloaded and looking for a less stressful alternative. Some ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Telehealth advocates and providers are urging Congress to let Medicare permanently pay for telehealth services as the longest ...
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, trends showed increased interest in the use of telehealth services by healthcare professionals and patients. While it was already widely believed by industry analysts ...
A consortium of telehealth companies and insurers has published its ‘National Telehealth Standards,’ but some question the document’s impact.
This year has been a messy one for virtual care companies, but that doesn’t mean that telehealth is dead, according to Eve Cunningham, Providence’s chief of virtual care and digital health. In her ...
Dr. Ian Hamilton is medical director of account management at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Dr. Ian Hamilton is medical director of account management at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. I’m ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allows the use of real-time, two-way audio/video communications technology to satisfy the direct supervision requirement for most Medicare Part B ...
It's been a tumultuous year for healthcare, from a global vaccine rollout and the threat of virus variants to the rise of telehealth and virtual care services. MobiHealthNews asked executives and ...