Telehealth

Also known as telemedicine, this area of care helps connect doctors and patients remotely, without requiring in-person visits. This virtual care strategy is beneficial for managing chronic conditions, delivering lab test or diagnostic imaging results, post-surgical follow-ups, assessing skin conditions, online counseling and many other healthcare services. It also can improve care, care access and outcomes for patients.

New Texas law allows for MD compensation for school telehealth visits

A new law means physicians participating in Texas' Medicaid program will receive compensation for virtual appointments with children at school. 

August 26, 2015

Georgia Partnership for Telehealth Announces Grant Recipients for the 2015 Rural School-Based Telehealth Center Initiative

Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth (GPT), a charitable nonprofit promoting the establishment of telemedicine programs in communities throughout Georgia, announces that eight Georgia schools have been awarded a grant through the 2015 Rural School-Based Telehealth Center Initiative to develop and implement a telehealth program at the beginning of the 2015–2016 school year. 

August 25, 2015

High patient satisfaction with CVS' telehealth pilot

Patient satisfaction rates topped 90 percent in a pilot program conducted by CVS Health for its telehealth program. 

August 24, 2015

Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth Joins GaHIN to Improve Care at School Clinics

ATLANTA, GA--(Jun 3, 2015) - Care providers at Georgia's school clinics will be able to remotely access student health information from pediatricians and other providers to deliver better onsite care now that Georgia Partnership For TeleHealth (GPT) has joined Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN). 

June 4, 2015

Samsung and TeleHealth Services Announce Completion of New Patient Care Solution to Cut Costs of Interactive Patient Engagement Solutions in Half

Raleigh, NC, March 25, 2015 – TeleHealth Services, the nation’s leading provider of hospital televisions and interactive patient engagement solutions, announced through their partnership with Samsung Electronics America, Inc., the completion of a new patient engagement solution called SmarTigr.

March 25, 2015

OSTAR Launches G4™ First Cell Enabled Multifunction TeleHealth Gateway for Diabetes / CHF

VANCOUVER, Wash., March 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- OSTAR Healthcare Technology, a Washington State-based Telehealth Solutions company, announced the global launch of its G4 Device Gateway.

March 9, 2015

Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth Expands Telemedicine to First College Campus in Georgia

Waycross, GA – (February 11, 2015) - Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth (GPT), a charitable nonprofit promoting the establishment of telemedicine programs in communities throughout Georgia, announces its newest partner, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC), a State College of the University System of Georgia located in Tifton.Waycross, GA – (February 11, 2015) - Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth (GPT), a charitable nonprofit promoting the establishment of telemedicine programs in communities throughout Georgia, announces its newest partner, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC), a State College of the University System of Georgia located in Tifton.

February 11, 2015

OSTAR Launches First Cellular TeleHealth Blood Pressure System for CHF

VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 30, 2015-- OSTAR Healthcare Technology, a Washington StateBased TeleHealth Solutions company, announced the North American launch of yet another first in theirCellular TeleHealth Blood Pressure Monitoring System. 

February 2, 2015

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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