Telemedicine news and information

If a patient in Wyoming has a complaint about a doctor in Colorado he is seeing via teleconference, it's unclear which state's medical licensing board would investigate. Kevin Bohnenblust, an attorney and the executive director of the Wyoming Board of Medicine, calls clarifying telemedicine and...
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The goals of population health management may be encouraging rampant consolidation across the healthcare industry, but some systems are pushing back.
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Doctors who perform drug-induced abortions in Missouri will have to be in the room to administer the initial dose and won't be allowed to do it remotely via teleconferencing, according to a new law set to take effect next month.
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed a bill requiring health insurance carriers to cover services provided through telemedicine.
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Changes in Kentucky's telehealth regulations are now making it easier for more providers to deliver more healthcare services to Medicaid patients by video link. Kentucky has had a telehealth network since 2000, but according to Rob Sprang, the network's co-manager and director of Kentucky TeleCare,...
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The Louisiana corrections agency reversed course on a contract that provides telemedicine-enabled medical care for inmates in state prisons. Legislators had complained when the state Department of Corrections chose a Texas firm to provide the services to replace LSU.
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Building on its success from the past 10 years, Project ECHO has established a national institute to replicate its model of using “telementoring” to improve the expertise of primary-care clinicians so they can better treat patients with chronic...
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The Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council (Binghamton, N.Y.) approved an initiative Thursday that would allow healthcare providers in the eight-county New York region to apply for $2.5 million in funding for telemedicine and mobile technology acquisition and training.
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Building on its success from the past 10 years, Project ECHO has established a new national institute to replicate its model of using “telementoring” to improve the expertise of primary-care clinicians so they can better serve patients with chronic conditions in underserved areas.
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Abortion opponents are asking the Iowa Board of Medicine to make adjustments in state policy that will end medical abortions using telemedicine, according to a leader of the Iowa Right to Life organization.
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