By Meg Bryant, Healthcare DIVE | September 14, 2018 Dive Brief: As Hurricane Florence makes landfall, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium Health and Winston-Salem-based Novant are readying plans to shift resources among their facilities to meet increased demand in areas hit hardest by the storm. As with last year's Hurricanes Harvey and [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | September 14, 2018 A new bill introduced this week in the House seeks to give Medicaid programs more leeway to treat substance abuse issues through telehealth. It may become part of the massive Opioid Crisis Response Act making its way through Congress. As Congress [...]
By Erik Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | September 12, 2018 Healthcare groups are coming out in support of the Federal Communications Commission’s $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, saying the proposed telehealth project could improve access to care for rural and remote Americans by highlighting innovate remote patient monitoring and digital [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | September 4, 2018 Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital have found that consumers are skipping the ER in favor of urgent care and retail clinics. But they're still not using telehealth for non-urgent care concerns. Hospitals and health systems are launching direct-to-consumer telehealth platforms [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | August 17, 2018 As the nation struggles with a substance abuse and addiction crisis, providers are using telehealth platforms and mHealth tools to enhance care management and coordination. Telehealth and mHealth are giving healthcare providers a well-stocked toolbox to treat people with substance abuse [...]
By Beth Jones Sunburn, Healthcare IT News | July 19, 2018 American Hospital Association called on Congress to advance remote patient monitoring, reduce restrictions on tech, and include more hospitals in the Rural Health Care Program. The American Hospital Association said rural healthcare entities need more federal funding for technological [...]
