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The company says its name is too similar to its CarePort Health subsidiary, and is "highly likely to cause confusion."
Hundreds of thousands of apps aimed at treating a wide variety of conditions are available – but their efficacy and quality remains largely unclear.
Clinicians, vendors and telehealth advocates stress the importance of virtual services in expanding access to care – and noted the ways it still needs to improve.
Although "technology can be a great equalizer," it can also be used to further inequities, said panelists at HLTH VRTL 2020.
Hospital associations call the threat from CMS to withhold Medicare and Medicaid participation for non-compliant data reporting "reckless."
Rather than trying to replace in-person care, telehealth in the future will complement and enhance it, said Amwell's Roy Schoenberg, during a conversation with Google Cloud's Aashima Gupta.
Amwell told Healthcare It News that it believes the claims lack merit and that it intends to "defend against them vigorously."
He predicted in a Tuesday speech that patients will eventually see telehealth as a "durable and desirable" part of their healthcare experience.
The remote care technology can help detect abnormalities in lung exams, and the company says it will soon be able to detect symptoms in throat exams as well.
InterSystems' IRIS Data Platform is now generally available to Epic customers.