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States Push For Insurance Coverage As Support For Virtual Healthcare Services Swells

For decades, proponents of telehealth, also known as telemedicine, have pushed for the expanded use of communications technology to deliver healthcare services to underserved areas — both urban and rural — to help patients like Seetook.  Read More

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Physicians Group Supports Greater Use of Telemedicine

Telemedicine can be beneficial, within the framework of an established physician-patient relationship, according to a position paper published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Read More

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New Texas Law Employs Telehealth Technology in Schools

As the telehealth field moves forward in improving patient access to healthcare services and lowering overall medical costs, many experts advise that telemedicine should be included in pediatric care. Previously, mHealthIntelligence.com reported on a guidance from the American Academy of …

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Telehealth and Home Health Technologies Expected to Quadruple by 2020

The telehealth and home health technologies market, valued last year at $3.4 billion, is expected to quadruple in size to more than $13.7 billion by 2020, a recent report by Tractica, a market intelligence firm in Boulder, Colo., said. Read …

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Increase in Coverage Laws Advance Telehealth Market Space

The growth of the telehealth market space has been truly revolutionary due to the ongoing remote monitoring developments, new innovations, and increase in state policies expanding reimbursement and telemedicine services. Currently, there are 29 states and the District of Columbia …

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Solvent Again, State Rural Health Association Rising Slowly, Carefully

The California State Rural Health Association, solvent again after wrestling with debt since closing up shop two years ago, is keeping tabs on legislation affecting rural health providers and planning a membership drive. Read More

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How Mobile Health Tools Strengthen Patient Engagement

Patient engagement continues to play a role in the healthcare industry particularly in the physician-patient relationship, as more hospitals and clinics adopt secure messaging tools to allow individuals to communicate with their doctors quickly and easily without data privacy risks. …

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Survey Finds “Sharp Increase” in Large Employers Planning to Offer Telehealth Come 2016

According to non-profit association National Business Group on Health, next year significantly more large employers will offer telehealth services to their employees than this year. The survey, which was conducted in June, included responses from 140 of the largest companies …

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Telehealth Solution Benefits Employees, Employers

Most people see a doctor every year — and the frequency of visits increase with family size. While necessary, in-person appointments can be a hassle. Parents have to take off from work, pull their kids out of school and all …

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How Tech Is Building Health Care of the Future

The newly formed organization, Jefferson, encompasses Jefferson Health and Thomas Jefferson University, representing both clinical and academic entities. Under the leadership of president and CEO Dr. Stephen K. Klasko and his four-pillar model of Clinical, Innovation, Academic and Philanthropy focus …

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