Telehealth
A bill introduced in Congress this week would enable healthcare providers to treat Medicare patients in other states via telemedicine without needing different licenses for each state.
Mayo Clinic will be working with Northern Arizona University to test the feasibility of using a telemedicine robot to assess athletes with suspected concussions during football games.
For the residents of an isolated Native American community perched on 112,870 acres of grassland and desert along the border of Nevada and Utah, healthcare will soon be available at the click of an icon.
Naomi Fried, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital, was featured at the IHT2 Health IT Summit in Boston on May 7-8, where she talked about ways to incorporate innovation in day-to-day work and about specific initiatives at Boston Children's.
While the rapid spread of mobile apps and devices has led to innovations in providing targeted physical care, more and more technology is being put to work reaching out to patients struggling with mental illness.
The Buffalo Bills announced Wednesday they will partner with Carestream Health to develop new imaging technology aimed at early detection of brain injuries. It's just the latest development for a league that's deploying health IT in football stadiums nationwide.
Deborah Jeffries, MD, director of healthcare for Polycom, talks about emerging telemedicine trends, including the growing power of the peer-to-peer aspects of personal health management.
About 15,000 children and family members across the country in need of healthcare will benefit from a partnership under which 15 of the Children's Health Fund's mobile medical clinics will be equipped with the latest health IT from the Verizon Foundation. The initiative kicked off in Miami on July 25.
We're in the middle of a long, 50-year cycle of telemedicine, says incoming ATA president Edward Brown, MD, CEO of Ontario Telemedicine Network.
There's an app for the Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle that lets users order a custom burrito and prepay for it, so it's ready when they arrive to pick it up. At one Houston-area hospital Harry Greenspun visited recently, patients can use that Chipotle app, he said, they just can't access their healthcare information. That got Greenspun talking about transformation.