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.

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Telehealth company wins FDA go-ahead on 2 neurodiagnostic AI applications

The FDA has cleared an investor-backed teleradiology provider to market two AI algorithms the company developed to flag certain stroke-associated findings in images from head CT scans.

May 4, 2020

New telehealth clinic to provide VR-powered treatment

XRHealth has announced the launch of a new telehealth clinic that allows patients to receive care at home via virtual reality (VR) technology.

February 12, 2020

Telehealth company introduces interactive chatbot for virtual visits

Florida-based telehealth provider MDLive is now incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into its virtual healthcare services with its new interactive chatbot named “Sophie,” according to a report by the Sun Sentinel.

November 5, 2018

Telehealth monitoring effective method for tuberculosis treatments

Telehealth monitoring of patients receiving tuberculosis treatments is more effective and cheaper than in-person monitoring, according to a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

October 17, 2018

Telehealth models just as effective as in-person care when treating psoriasis patients

Telehealth models are just as effective as in-person visits with physicians when treating patients with psoriasis.

October 8, 2018

College students to study effects of telehealth, AI on the elderly

A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) program and senior living community are partnering to research the effects of telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms on seniors in assisted living and memory care communities.

September 5, 2018

FCC announces $100M initiative to support telehealth programs for veterans, rural populations

On Thursday, August 2, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved a plan to establish a $100 million program to help establish telehealth efforts for low-income Americans, focusing particularly on rural communities and veterans.

August 3, 2018

Telehealth could support caregiver experience—but quality evidence is lacking

Previous studies on the impact telehealth tools had on caregiver support showed potential benefits, but evidence of quality is lacking, according to a new systematic review.

June 18, 2018

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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