Telehealth giants pairing obesity drugs with weight-loss programs to prevent overreliance on prescriptions
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Aaron Dorman
Aug 23, 2023
Telehealth companies could offer, or even require, virtual fitness program pairing with obesity drugs, as new procedures are developed.
Telehealth platform, with accessories like mini-stethoscope, gets big funding boost
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Aaron Dorman
Aug 11, 2023
One of the latest startups to receive a windfall is TytoCare, a virtual healthcare platform whose market includes assisted living facilities.
AMDA leadership weighs in on DEA’s telehealth medicine rules debate
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Jessica R. Towhey
Aaron Dorman
Aug 10, 2023
The DEA may re-evaluate its rules on prescribing controlled substances via telehealth appointments, following a deluge of 38,000 public comments on the initial rulemaking.
Third-party data tracking the latest FTC target in telehealth privacy push
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Aaron Dorman
Jul 25, 2023
The FTC and US HHS issued a joint statement last week warning about websites and apps whose tracking tech could violate rules.
Post-pandemic telehealth funding now focused on specific ‘mega-deals,’ data shows
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Aaron Dorman
Jul 14, 2023
Investment in digital health technology has shifted since the pandemic, from broad funding to a focus on specific opportunities, according to new market analyses.
Telehealth may not be as thrifty as many think, researchers find
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Aaron Dorman
Jul 13, 2023
While expanding virtual health options offers a number of benefits to patients and providers, the assumption that telehealth will universally lower costs may be overstated, experts caution.
Follow-up telehealth visits rare, new study shows, as Congress follows up on telehealth expansion in...
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Aaron Dorman
Jul 11, 2023
Patients are less likely to schedule a follow-up to a telehealth visit than in-person, a newly updated study shows.
New partnership expands telehealth for LTC-ACO patients
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Aaron Dorman
Jun 27, 2023
Benefits provider LTC ACO announced a “deepening collaboration” with Third Eye Health to provide virtual urgent care to patients, the two companies announced Monday.
60 Senators support bipartisan telehealth access bill
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Aaron Dorman
Jun 23, 2023
Sixty Senators, including six bipartisan sponsors, reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies Act (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2023.
$1 billion contract supports veterans’ telehealth, tech-enabled care
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Aaron Dorman
Jun 23, 2023
AI-giant Iveda, in partnership with Movement Interactive, announced Thursday that it had received an eight-year Veterans Affairs contract worth just over $1 billion to use IvedaCarea and IvedaAI for telehealth...