• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

  • Opinion
  • Health IT
    • Behavioral Health
    • Care Coordination
    • EMR/EHR
    • Interoperability
    • Patient Engagement
    • Population Health Management
    • Revenue Cycle Management
    • Social Determinants of Health
  • Digital Health
    • AI
    • Blockchain
    • Precision Medicine
    • Telehealth
    • Wearables
  • Life Sciences
  • Investments
  • M&A
  • Value-based Care
    • Accountable Care (ACOs)
    • Medicare Advantage

Telemedicine & Telehealth | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant

 

Babyscripts Lowers Prenatal In-Person Visits During COVID-19 Outbreak

by Jasmine Pennic 03/24/2020 Leave a Comment

Babyscripts Inks $500k Strategic Partnership with Inova Health

What You Should Know: - Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for obstetrics is helping to lower the amount of prenatal in-person visits to 4-6 appointments during the COVID-19 outbreak due to increased demand. - The standard amount of in-person prenatal care visits is 12-14. With the help of mobile health and their remote patient monitoring platform, which connects patients directly with their providers, Babyscripts is safely transitioning prenatal care outside the clinic.  As
Read More

AMA Launches Virtual Panel Discussion on Telemedicine Amid COVID-19

by Fred Pennic 03/24/2020 Leave a Comment

6 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Considerations for Telehealth Providers

What You Should Know: - The American Medical Association launches a virtual panel discussion today focused on telemedicine and COVID-19. - The discussion is hosted by the AMA’s Physician Innovation Network (PIN), an online networking community of physicians, digital health companies and entrepreneurs. The American Medical Association is helping mobilize a dramatic increase in the nation’s telemedicine capacity through its advocacy on Medicare policy changes
Read More

Validic Launches Real-Time, COVID-19 Remote Symptom Monitoring Tool

by Fred Pennic 03/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Validic Launches Real-Time, COVID-19 Remote Symptom Monitoring Tool

What You Should Know: - Validic launches COVID-19 rapid deployment remote monitoring tool for employers and healthcare organizations to monitor employees, patients, and other individuals at scale for emerging symptoms of COVID-19. - COVID-19 Home Monitoring tracks a person’s body temperature, difficulty breathing, cough frequency, and oxygen saturation. - Triggered alerts will notify program administrators or clinicians as a person’s symptoms worsen, improve, or remain static – or as
Read More

COVID-19: Why Limited HIPAA Waivers from HHS Don’t Do Enough To Address Telehealth

by Alissa Smith, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney and co-chair of its Health Transactions and Regulations Practice Group 03/18/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19: Why Limited HIPPA Waivers from HHS Don't Do Enough To Address Telehealth

What You Need to Know: - HHS issued some very limited HIPAA waivers to combat COVID-19999, but experts say it leaves out some very key guidance when it comes to telehealth. - Alissa Smith, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney says the HHS is likely going to have to revisit this issue given the limited waivers issued this week.   The main thing I am hearing from my health care provider clients is that they are seeking HIPAA-related guidance
Read More

Coronavirus Drives Teladoc’s Daily Virtual Medical Visits Up 50%

by Jasmine Pennic 03/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Pandemic Drives Teladoc’s Daily Virtual Medical Visits Up 50% in Past Week

What You Need to Know: - In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Teladoc Health reports that its daily virtual medical visit volume has spiked 50% over the prior week. - Teladoc Health has provided approximately 100,000 virtual medical visits to patients in the United States in the past week. Virtual care provider Teladoc Health announced that the company is experiencing unprecedented daily visit volume in the United States as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues
Read More

Vivify Health Launches COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways

by Fred Pennic 03/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Vivify Health Launches COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways

What You Need to Know: - Vivify Health has announced that availability today of new COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways for Vivify+Go mobile solution to providers at non-cost. - This enables low-risk patients or those with mild symptoms to use their mobile devices to self-screen for COVID-19 by answering a series of questions that follow the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. - The self-screening helps providers scale their
Read More

CTA Releases Virtual Care Guiding Principles, Led by Livongo, Validic, Others

by Fred Pennic 03/13/2020 Leave a Comment

CTA Releases Virtual Care Guiding Principles, Led by Livongo, Validic, Others

What You Need to Know: - Consumer Technology Association (CTA) released a new set of industry-led guidelines on virtual care, convening health tech leaders like Doctor on Demand, Livongo, Validic, and BioIntelliSense. - The virtual care principles offer core guidelines and practices across patient engagement, standards of care, quality, continuity of care, prescribing and privacy and security. - While virtual care is not a panacea, in the midst of an outbreak, evaluation, triage and
Read More

6 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Considerations for Telehealth Providers

by Husch Blackwell attorneys Julian Rivera, Renee Zerbonia and Tamar E. Hodges. 03/13/2020 Leave a Comment

6 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Considerations for Telehealth Providers

As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues, the federal government and commercial health insurers have taken significant steps to increase Americans’ access to treatment and testing. In the past week, the federal government and private insurers have issued a number of guidance documents expanding coverage and payment requirements in an effort to minimize the spread of the virus. As with any changes in coverage and reimbursement, healthcare providers offering telehealth services should
Read More

RubiconMD Lands $18M to Expand eConsult Platform for Primary Care Clinicians

by Fred Pennic 03/12/2020 Leave a Comment

RubiconMD Lands $18M to Expand eConsult Platform for Primary Care Clinicians

What You Need to Know: - Leading eConsult platform RubiconMD raises $18M in Series C funding led by Deerfield Management Company to expand its product offerings to better serve primary care clinicians. - RubiconMD’s eConsult platform enables primary care clinicians to easily and quickly discuss their eConsults with top specialists, so they can provide better care–improving the patient experience and reducing costs. RubiconMD, an NYC-based eConsult platform providing access to
Read More

Maryland’s Doctors Urge State to Adopt Telehealth to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus

by Fred Pennic 03/12/2020 Leave a Comment

Rimidi Launches EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure to Patients & Staff

What You Need to Know:   - The Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi), which represents 22,000 doctors, today urged the state of Maryland to help protect healthcare workers and others from the novel coronavirus by keeping sick people AWAY from doctors’ offices and instead assess and treat patients through virtual visits. - MedChi has provided doctors with telehealth capabilities enabled by DrFirst’s Backline care collaboration tool. Backline enables physicians to conduct
Read More

  • Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 45
  • Go to page 46
  • Go to page 47
  • Go to page 48
  • Go to page 49
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 91
  • Next Page

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to HIT Consultant

Latest insightful articles delivered straight to your inbox weekly.

Submit a Tip or Pitch

Featured Interview

The AI Paradox in Healthcare: Notable CEO Shares Why Moving Too Slowly is a Greater Risk

Most-Read

Pfizer and Trump Administration Announce Landmark Agreement to Lower Drug Costs

Pfizer and Trump Administration Announce Landmark Agreement to Lower Drug Costs

KLAS Report: Epic's Native Ambient Speech Tool Reshapes Customer AI Strategies

KLAS Report: Epic’s Native Ambient Speech Tool Reshapes Customer AI Strategies

Epic Unveils MyChart Central and New APIs to Advance Interoperability at Open@Epic

Epic Outlines Roadmap for Next-Generation Data Sharing at Open@Epic

Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys

Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys

RevSpring to Acquire Kyruus Health, Creating a Unified Patient Experience

RevSpring to Acquire Kyruus Health, Creating a Unified Patient Experience

Oracle Confirms Layoffs in Kansas City

Oracle Confirms Layoffs in Kansas City

Philips Future Health Index 2025: AI and Digital Tech Can Help Solve Cardiac Care Crisis

Philips Future Health Index 2025: AI and Digital Tech Can Help Solve Cardiac Care Crisis

Optain Health Secures $26M to Advance AI-Powered Retinal Screening

Optain Health Secures $26M for AI-Powered Retinal Screening

Sutter Health and Epic Launch "Sutter Sync" to Optimize Remote Chronic Care

Sutter Health and Epic Launch “Sutter Sync” to Optimize Remote Chronic Care

Patient Square Capital Acquires Premier in $2.6B Deal

Secondary Sidebar

Footer

Company

  • About Us
  • Advertise with Us
  • Reprints and Permissions
  • Submit An Op-Ed
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

Editorial Coverage

  • Opinion
  • Health IT
    • Care Coordination
    • EMR/EHR
    • Interoperability
    • Population Health Management
    • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Digital Health
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Blockchain Tech
    • Precision Medicine
    • Telehealth
    • Wearables
  • Startups
  • Value-Based Care
    • Accountable Care
    • Medicare Advantage

Connect

Subscribe to HIT Consultant Media

Latest insightful articles delivered straight to your inbox weekly

Copyright © 2025. HIT Consultant Media. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy |