Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill (S.B. 1363) into law, on May 17, 2016, requiring private health plans to pay for telemedicine services across the whole state rather than only services received in rural areas of the state.
Telemedicine Markets Dialing up Big Growth Rates
Increasing global focus on the use of telemedicine to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes is spurring big growth in the telemedicine technologies market. BCC Research reveals in its new report that the new U.S. healthcare law will, if anything, intensify this focus by increasing the number of people with health insurance and seeking medical services.
Telepharmacies Give Providers a Growing Rx for Success
In rural communities across the country, it’s often more difficult to find a pharmacist than it is to find a doctor. Now healthcare providers are using telemedicine platforms to create telepharmacy networks and bring the pharmacist into the clinical conversation.
American Medical Association’s ethics council to consider telemedicine guidelines again
The guidelines appear to have changed little but remote visits has turned into one of the biggest trends in healthcare. Next week the association plans to discuss adding the guidelines at its annual conference in Chicago.
Telemedicine as a way to save critically ill newborns
The guidance provided by Mayo neonatologists to the neonatal teams at six participating hospitals prevented having to transfer some infants for critical care and helped stabilize others before transfer. Every transfer avoided saved the system $35,000, for a total of more than $1 million over the course of the three-year study, according to lead author Dr. Jennifer Fang, a fellow in neonatal and perinatal medicine at Mayo in Rochester, Minn.
How telemedicine is helping the VA address its access crisis
The Under Secretary for Health and VA Chief Executive Dr. David Shulkin said at the American Telemedicine Association annual conference yesterday, is that it has pushed the VA into exploring new avenues to provide veterans with care including, increasingly, telemedicine options.
Feds finalize rules around incentives in employee wellness programs
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has set limits on the monetary value of incentives that employers offer to employees and their spouses to convince them to contribute specific health information to a wellness program, according to the commission’s final rules released this week. The rules take effect at the start of 2017.
How telehealth can transform behavioral health care
The impact of behavioral health is finally getting its moment in the sun. As the shades of stigma are slowly lifted, people are beginning to speak about mental health and substance use disorders.
Telemedicine Scores a Touchdown: VGo Robot Helps Diagnose Concussions on the Football Field
When the UA Wildcats hosted Northern Arizona University at the teams’ 2013 football season opener in Tucson, a new NAU “team member” stood on the sidelines, ready to make a bit of medical history.
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