Category: telehealth

Curative, a startup that offers testing and telehealth services, has laid off 109 employees, according to a state filing in California.

Zócalo Health, a Latino-focused telehealth company founded by two Amazon veterans, has received $5 million in seed funding to launch its virtual primary care services.

Dallas-based White Rock Medical Center has partnered with telemedicine developer SHL Telemedicine to use its technology to conduct pre-surgery physicals in remote locations. 

Researchers have created a “digital mask” they say could help keep patients’ images private in EHRs and during telehealth visits, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allegedly opened an investigation into ADHD telehealth provider Done, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 15. 

Republican and Democratic lawmakers are looking to expand the availability of telehealth, which includes telehealth for Medicare patients and access to virtual opioid use disorder treatments, Politico reported Sept. 14. 

Amazon joined hundreds of provider groups, hospitals and virtual care companies to send a joint letter to the U.S. Senate to pass a two-year extension of telehealth policies that were enacted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Teladoc named Saranya Loehrer, MD, as chief health equity officer. 

Tuskegee (Ala.) University has rolled out a new on-campus virtual care station in collaboration with telehealth company OnMed that is available for no cost to students, staff and the community as a whole.

A small number of primary care providers have been responsible for most of the recent growth in remote patient monitoring, though it’s not known how much their patients needed that type of potentially expensive care, a new Health Affairs study found.