Telemedicine news and information

Retail clinics and urgent-care centers offer patients flexible hours and convenience, but telehealth may be poised to take over as the easiest way for patients to get answers, advice and prescriptions for their routine ailments.
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Retail clinics and urgent-care centers offer patients flexible hours and convenience—but not as much as the new Anywhere Care service the Louisville-based KentuckyOne system will start offering in November.
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A group of surgeons in the U.S., through the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations and the Syrian American Medical Society, is assisting with Syria's increasing medical needs without ever entering a Syrian operating room.
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It's 2 a.m., and a bout of what you think might be gastritis is making sleep impossible. What to do? You could search out the rare urgent care clinic that's open after midnight, or go to the nearest emergency room and hope that you receive prompt but expensive attention. Beginning this week,...
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Air Force veteran Dianne Brown is a patient of the Cheyenne VA Medical Center Mobile Telehealth Clinic, Laramie, Wyo. The clinic exists to provide primary care and mental healthcare to “rural and highly rural veterans.” Like all veterans who work with providers at the mobile clinic,...
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The University of Virginia Health System is home to a program that may be essential to solving the healthcare-access problem in the U.S. The program is centered around telemedicine, or the use of electronic communication to exchange medical information either from patient to physician or between...
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Project ECHO pairs specialists with primary-care physicians and other clinicians via video teleconferencing to teach primary-care providers how to treat complex, chronic conditions.
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Teladoc, a Dallas-based provider of physician-patient telehealth services, said it has acquired rival Consult A Doctor, Miami Beach, Fla.
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Virtual Radiologic, a telehealth radiology company based in Minneapolis, hired David Trachtenberg as chief solutions officer.
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Mayo Clinic researchers are taking a new electronic face around Northern Arizona University games this college football season. It's called the teleconcussion robot.The partnership between Mayo Clinic and NAU will test the feasibility of using a telemedicine robot to assess athletes with suspected...
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