American Well moves into telepsychiatry, hires behavioral health VP
The telepsychiatry service launched this week in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Carolina. It should be nationwide by early next year.
New York-Presbyterian beefs up telehealth with NYP OnDemand service suite
The New York City organization has launched NYP OnDemand, a four-pronged digital health strategy meant to provide a broad range of online offerings to patients and to expand the New York-Presbyterian brand.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Drilling down into the motivations behind consumer healthcare decisions
“Part of it is a lack of understanding as an industry with respect to what consumers really want,” said Kirk Pion, vice president and “innovation champion” at UnitedHealthcare.
Making an argument for telemedicine kiosks
If you can put aside the downfall of HealthSpot, as this article does, telemedicine kiosks look like a pretty good idea.
American Well loses patent claim against Teladoc, plans appeal
American Well has already fired back. "This is Borders versus Amazon for healthcare," said Chairman and CEO Dr. Ido Schoenberg.
Avera Health’s Move to Consumer Telehealth
A Case Study on the Plan and Roadmap for Avera’s Direct-to-Consumer Offering. Join a webinar hosted by American Well and Avera about Avera’s move to consumer telehealth on June 14th. Coming in to 2015, Avera Health wanted to introduce a direct-to-consumer telehealth offering to complement its already established business-to-business telemedicine network. Avera Health – based in […]
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
New CMS regulations are another victory for telehealth – here’s why
This is the second post of a 3 part series discussing telemedicine sponsored by American Well. CMS recently unveiled a massive regulatory overhaul of Medicaid managed care requirements, which includes a call for states to allow telehealth to meet network adequacy standards. Historically, telehealth has been left out of this equation. The telehealth world is still evolving, […]
4 Ways Healthcare is Getting a Return on Telehealth
This is the first post of a 3 part series discussing telemedicine sponsored by American Well. A recent study by Willis Towers Watson found that telehealth could save as much as $6 billion annually in U.S. healthcare costs. While this figure indicates huge potential within healthcare systems for reducing medical costs with telehealth, it’s equally […]
Morning Read: American Well deal gives CVS MinuteClinic customers access to Cleveland Clinic providers
Also, the FDA has cleared the first blood-based colorectal cancer screening test, and Philadelphia's professional basketball team is building an innovation lab and is looking for entrepreneurs developing technology to help the players.
Mass General president joins American Well board
Slavin joins the likes of former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Brendan O’Grady, CEO of Teva North American Generics, on the board.
BioLabs Pegasus Park Cultivates Life Science Ecosystem
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
Why did HealthSpot fail? The telemedicine industry weighs in
So far, attempts to reach HealthSpot CEO Steve Cashman have been unsuccessful, so we haven't heard the company's explanation for why it failed. It's left to others to speculate.
American Well, Doximity push telemedicine as MD career option
Two of the biggest names in digital health for healthcare professionals want to make the "online doctor" a viable career path.
Intermountain taps American Well to expand on-demand telehealth
The service, dubbed Intermountain Connect Care, will go online early next year.
From Practice Fusion’s future to CVS teaming up with telemedicine competitors: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week
Telemedicine was the main theme for MedHeads this week, and the same subject was also present in some of our top stories from the week.
CVS teams with American Well, Teladoc, Doctor On Demand to widen physician access
Even as telemedicine rivals American Well and Teladoc battle it out in court over intellectual property, CVS Health is bringing those two together with competitor Doctor On Demand to test how retail pharmacies, convenience clinics and direct-to-consumer telehealth companies can widen patient access to physicians.