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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Microsoft partners with Nuance on ‘ambient clinical intelligence’ for telehealth

Providers seeing patients remotely via Microsoft Teams make up the target market for a Nuance voice-recognition offering that automatically takes clinical notes during virtual visits and renders them useful immediately afterward.

Successful drug-shopping company developing telehealth markets, planning $100M IPO

A popular and fast-growing consumer healthcare company rooted in technology intends to go public with an initial offering of $100 million in shares.

Google takes $100M plunge into telehealth

Google Cloud is injecting $100 million into a supplier of telehealth platforms, partly to build out AI systems for helping hospitals remotely handle patient inquiries, intake and triage.

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Pandemic has opened doors for telehealth, but security concerns could narrow the space

More than half of Americans, 54%, have seen doctors remotely during the COVID crisis. However, some 48% might not touch telehealth again if their data were to get hacked during a telehealth-related breach.

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Verma gets behind Trump’s telehealth plan, ‘sweeping’ healthcare executive order to come

CMS Administrator Seema Verma has taken to cable news in the wake of President Donald Trump’s Aug. 3 executive order for Medicare to expand telehealth coverage during the pandemic and make much of it permanent afterward.

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Senators ask to make COVID-19 telehealth extensions permanent

A group of bipartisan senators have banded together to call for expanded telehealth benefits allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic to become permanent.

COVID-19 has opened telehealth, virtual care to the masses

The authors further found that a majority of hospitals are now using standalone telemedicine products rather than those that are part of their EHR.

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Surge in telehealth shows AI’s potential for keeping patients on track

After seeing telehealth visits skyrocket 3,700% in April over March—most of them COVID-related—UPMC is touting its use of AI to help patients retain and apply doctors’ guidance offered during virtual visits.

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