ROSEVILLE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2013 – The newest remote care management offering from Care Innovations™ is now FDA-cleared to take healthcare into the home and beyond via a web-based patient platform, while also offering tools to engage family caregivers. By eliminating the need for hardware, the Care Innovations™ Connect RCM (Remote Care Management) client application may reduce the cost of remote care deployments by as much as 50 percent compared to device-centric solutions available today.

Telehealth is one answer to controlling healthcare costs and improving access to healthcare, but it does not receive the attention it deserves, Mich. State Rep. Klint Kesto and registered nurse Sheryl Stone, wrote in an editorial to the Kalamazoo Gazette.

About 80,000 veterans took part in more than 200,000 telehealth consultations with physicians and therapists in 2012, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The telehealth program also reduced veterans’ bed days by 58 percent and admissions by 38 percent, according to an article published in Military.com.

Healthcare is “on the verge of an explosion of opportunities for telehealth,” according to Gary Capistrant, senior director of public policy for the American Telemedicine Association, who spoke during the organization’s monthly webinar.

Can a physician adequately serve multiple patients—in four or more different locations—in the same morning? Andrew R. Watson, MD, MLitt, FACS, knows the answer is yes because he has done it. Executive director of telemedicine for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and a practicing colorectal surgeon, Watson has found that his real world experience prepares him well for the naysayers—but patients are not among the skeptics.

A state-ordered mandate on insurance companies was signed into law in Arizona, making healthcare more accessible and affordable in rural areas of the state.

Massachusetts General Hospital has partnered with American Well for a three-pronged telehealth pilot program designed to bring healthcare services to current patients in Massachusetts, focusing first on child and adolescent psychiatry, heart failure and neurology, by making physicians available to patients through live, real-time video visits.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – April 1, 2013 – Honeywell (NYSE: HON) HomMed, a global leader in telehealth and remote patient care, today announced its LifeStream Leaders Advantage Program, designed to support healthcare providers as they implement, market and grow their telehealth programs.