Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth (GPT), a charitable nonprofit promoting the establishment of telemedicine programs in communities throughout Georgia, announces that eight Georgia schools have been awarded a grant through the 2015 Rural School-Based Telehealth Center Initiative to develop and implement a telehealth program at the beginning of the 2015–2016 school year. 

In a follow-up to the February announcement of the Obama Administration’s Precision Medicine Initiative, the White House posted a blog post seeking contributions that further the initiative’s goals.

Patient satisfaction rates topped 90 percent in a pilot program conducted by CVS Health for its telehealth program. 

The Association of American Medical Colleges recently launched a training program where it trains faculty members and physicians to examine their unconscious biases.

Accenture and Duke University have formed an alliance focused on jointly developing new advanced analytics solutions. 

This week in health IT, there were several partnerships announced that aim to advance healthcare. While there is much wrong with the state of healthcare today, these are the kinds of initiatives that signal an exciting future.

Digital health technology leader WellDoc today announced the launch of an innovative demonstration program with Samsung Electronics in Ontario, Canada through the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), a world leader in telemedicine.

The Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine is collaborating with Helix to develop applications focused on educating consumers about their genetic data and health-related information.