Telemedicine news and information

Iowa legislators have declined for the moment to step into a dispute over whether state regulators should shut down a video-conferencing system used to dispense abortion pills statewide.
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Advances in technology mean Aberdeen-area veterans can make fewer trips to the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Sioux Falls, Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., learned Tuesday. Telehealth is growing in popularity and increasing specialty care at the Aberdeen clinic, Dr. Donna Small told Johnson as...
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When Bill Hill, 75, steps on the scale, his weight appears 24 miles away on computer monitor at Essentia Health in Duluth, Minn. There, registered nurse Denise Buxbaum monitors his health in a program that aims to keep about 300 heart failure patients out of the hospital.
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Before there can be patient-generated data, there have to be patients willing and able to provide it and tools to capture, communicate, receive and present it. That's where Dr. Susan Woods comes in.
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Expenditures from the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund have more than doubled to $32 million in the last five years as new demands have come from telemedicine for hospitals and clinics and broadband Internet for schools and libraries.
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Veterans Affairs Department health leaders showed off a wide range of remote medical offerings Tuesday at their first Connected Health Showcase, an event designed to highlight telehealth advances but also tout the department's place as a leader in cutting-edge healthcare delivery.
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The Verizon Foundation and the Children's Health Fund have launched an initiative to bring mobile clinics throughout the United States, beginning with a telehealth project involving the University of Miami.
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AMC Health, a New York-based telehealth company, has named Michael O'Brien as president of its clinical trials division.
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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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