Category: telehealth

Oregon health system to launch Epic telemedicine platform

Epic Video Client will replace the previous telemedicine platforms used at Corvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services starting in August.

Teladoc, Microsoft to bring generative AI to telehealth

Teladoc is partnering with Microsoft to integrate its artificial intelligence services, which can automate clinical documentation, on the company’s telehealth platform. 

Cleveland Clinic bets on telehealth to reduce costs, reach younger patients

Even though telehealth appointments have continued to decline since the COVID-19 pandemic,  Cleveland Clinic said it is still betting on virtual care to lower costs and to reach patients who are more comfortable accessing care online, Ideastream P…

How UNC Health is using virtual care to address maternal mortality

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health has partnered with federally qualified health center Chapel Hill-based Piedmont Health to combat maternal health inequities by creating a new virtual maternal-fetal medicine specialty consultation service.  

Telehealth only reduces costs for certain types of diseases

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that telehealth did not reduce costs or the number of future visits for patients with circulatory, respiratory or infectious diseases.

Top 4 most common telehealth diagnoses

Here are the four most common telehealth diagnoses based on data from Fair Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, according to July 6 news release from Fair Health.

Intermountain's pediatric telehealth program expands

Physicians at Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health’s emergency department will now be able to connect to Salt Lake City-based Primary Children’s Hospital trauma and pediatric ICU specialists via telehealth.

Telehealth utilization falls nationally

Telehealth utilization decreased across all regions in April, decreasing nationally by 5.4 percent month over month, according to a July 6 news release from Fair Health.

Judge tosses suit alleging Teladoc misled investors

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote dismissed a lawsuit against Teladoc that alleges that the virtual healthcare company misled investors regarding its business, operations and future prospects. 

Intermountain starts dispensing contraceptives via telehealth

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health is using telehealth to increase access to contraceptives after Utah pharmacists were allowed to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives directly to adult women in the state, TownLift reported July 6.