Telehealth
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to evaluated a virtual adolescent treatment known as SparkRx. The CHLA study is the latest of many efforts to assess the value and limitations among the rapidly rising number of apps and telehealth offerings designed to serve the needs of patients accessing…
Morgan Health, JPMorgan Chase’s health care venture arm, has been busy making good on its pledge to invest $250 million in health care startups to help reshape health care. The company recently invested $20 million in LetsGetChecked, which offers at-home diagnostic and genetic testing, virtual…
Medicare patients who accessed opioid use disorder treatment through telehealth services during the pandemic were more likely to stay in treatment and less likely to experience an overdose than patients without telehealth access to OUD treatment, according to a federal study published last week in…
Robert Pearl, M.D., CEO of Kaiser Permanente Medical Group from 1999 to 2017, and Brian Wayling, executive director of telehealth services at Intermountain Healthcare, another pioneering telehealth organization, argue in a recent Harvard Business Review report that the telehealth era is just…
Kentucky-based ScionHealth, which operates 79 facilities in 25 states, recently partnered with the health tech company Cadence to provide remote patient monitoring (RPM) services to patients with chronic conditions.
AHA comments in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Request for Information regarding the Medicare Advantage program.
The recent news that CVS Health plans to bid for Signify Health, a value-based care analytics company that helps payers, employers and providers with in-home care, is the latest case of companies’ focusing on advancing their primary care reach and in-home care services while bulking up their…
The departments of Health and Human Services and Justice today released guidance on federal telehealth protections for people with disabilities and limited English proficiency.
The House yesterday voted 416-12 to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act, legislation that would continue Medicare patient access to telehealth services, including audio-only services, through 2024 after the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Commenting yesterday on draft legislation to expand access to mental health services through telehealth, AHA told the Senate Finance Committee the following.