Telemedicine news and information

On Jan. 1, nearly 200,000 San Diego County residents will qualify for subsidized health insurance under the healthcare reform law, and an additional 100,000 will be newly eligible for Medi-Cal coverage. Local health systems say they are turning to technology to help increase the capacity of their...
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Just a few years ago, when patients had symptoms, they could either call their doctors, go to emergency rooms or tough it out at home. Now options for care designed for consumer convenience are mounting.
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Lawmakers adopted a rule effectively outlawing the practice of telemedicine abortions in Iowa on a party-line vote this week.
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Cuyahoga County, Ohio, employees will soon be able to receive medical care without leaving the office, by stepping into a high-tech kiosk manned remotely by a MetroHealth Medical Center doctor via computer screen.
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Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a lawsuit in federal court Sept. 30 asking a judge to grant a stay against a rule from the Iowa Board of Medicine that would restrict abortion access in the state.
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Instead of driving more than an hour from Maryville, Ill., mom-to-be Suzy Buschur has a video chat with Dr. Bruce Morris, her fetal medicine specialist at Mercy Hospital St. Louis. Mercy is one of many St. Louis healthcare systems and hospitals taking advantage of telemedicine to connect small town...
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One morning in June, several students at Eastern Maine Medical Center watched a live video of a surgical procedure. In a nearby operating room, trauma surgeon Rafael Grossman was on the business end of the video feed. The surgeon recorded the procedure using Google Glass, the wearable computer and...
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Doctors who practice telemedicine in Massachusetts should be licensed by the state, especially if they're diagnosing patients without doing so in person, a lawyer for the Massachusetts Medical Society said.
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What it does: GlobalMed provides patients access to healthcare providers, and providers access to medical data through various forms of connectivity, including telemedicine.
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Regarding “Licensing issues could slow telehealth services”: I would like to add some comments to the article on licensing and telehealth. While licensing does take time, don't forget credentialing.
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