Rural clinics increasingly turn to telemedicine
Fifty years in farming had given Tom Soukup a few brushes with his own mortality, but after a cow pinned him against a wall, death felt closer than ever. He …
Practice Guidelines for Real-time, Direct-to-Patient Primary Urgent Care Telemedicine Released
The American Telemedicine Association released draft Practice Guidelines for Real-time, Direct-to-Patient Primary Urgent Care Telemedicine and is seeking public comments through June 20, 2014. These guidelines are particularly useful and …
Grand Rounds Raises $40 Million To Ensure The Best Doctor Will See You Now
Building a consulting network of the best physicians in the U.S. from the nation’s best hospitals has brought the health care startup Grand Rounds $40 million in new financing. The …
Telehealth groups to Burwell: Ease these 5 burdens
No sooner did Sylvia Matthews Burwell take over as Health and Human Services Secretary than a collection of telemedicine and mHealth associations asked her to eliminate some of the roadblocks …
IBM to Bid for Department of Defense Healthcare Modernization Contract
IBM today announced that it will team with Epic, the market-leading provider of electronic health records (EHR), to compete for the Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) contract. …
ACOs, digital health companies petition new HHS secretary to remove telehealth restrictions
After efforts to remove restrictions from CMS coverage of telehealth through legislative channels have stalled, telehealth stakeholders have sent a barrage of open letters to incoming US Secretary of Health …