by modern health care | Mar 22, 2021 | Healthcare, Telehealth
Amazon is making its first foray into providing healthcare services, announcing Wednesday that it will be offering its Amazon Care telemedicine program to employers nationwide. Currently available to the company’s employees in Washington state, Is an app that...
by Maria Castellucci | Jan 1, 2021 | Telehealth
Every four weeks for the last two years, Dan Greene and his wife drive 10 hours from their home in Wilmington, N.C., to the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus so he can participate in a clinical trial. The drive is taxing, but Greene said...
by Alex Kacik | Nov 25, 2020 | Telehealth
Overall emergency department visits were down about 20% in September compared to the same prior-year period, which is often a primary referral source for hospitals. Small But many Massachusetts systems were taking in more behavioral health cases through the ED, which...
by Shelby Livingston | Oct 8, 2020 | Telehealth
Medicare Advantage insurers are pushing into new territories and introducing new benefits in 2021, as they try to attract more members in the rapidly growing, lucrative market. UnitedHealthcare on Thursday laid out plans to sell coverage in nearly 300 new counties,...
by Jasmine Pennic | Dec 3, 2019 | Telehealth
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday took action to promote telehealth in rural America through reforms to the Rural Health Care Program that ensure limited program funds are disbursed efficiently and equitably, promote...
