Telepharmacy developer PipelineRX received another investment from the California Healthcare Foundation that will help it expand its services to more rural hospitals through a partnership with the California Hospital Association. The foundation in 2012 was one of the initial investors in San Francisco-based PipelineRX, which was founded by CEO Brian Roberts in 2010. Last year, […]
2014 has been a banner year for Natalie Hodges and Brandi Harless of Personal Medicine Plus. The duo graduated from Xlerate Health, gave 45 59-second pitches at Cleveland Clinic’s Innovation conference, recruited 30 doctors for their Physician Pioneer program, joined Startup Health and presented at the mHealth Summit 2014. They will be making a trip […]
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OhioHealth and its network of hospitals across the state are embarking on a telemedicine collaboration with Time Warner Cable to bring clinical expertise to more rural areas, with the goal of quickly determining whether a patient can be treated within the community or if a transport is necessary. While scores of health systems are exploring […]
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Angela Allen’s struggle to ease her neck pain has been a huge pain in the neck. Her regular spine doctor does not accept the new insurance she bought through the federal health marketplace. Allen, who has two slipped disks in her neck vertebrae, said the closest specialist she found who would see […]
When emergency room patients are deemed “a danger to themselves or others,” every state requires hospitals to hold them until a psychiatrist conducts a face-to-face evaluation to decide whether it is safe to let them leave. In rural hospitals across the country, it can take days for a psychiatrist to show up and perform the […]
An ambulance races down an empty street in Folkston, Ga., population about 5,000. It bypasses Charlton Memorial Hospital, makes a sharp right turn and speeds to an emergency room 40 miles away. Why? Because Charlton Memorial Hospital has been closed since last August. Four of Georgia’s 65 rural hospitals have shut down over the past […]
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Small-town hospitals are worried that a federal recommendation to cut costs by re-evaluating which rural hospitals receive higher Medicare reimbursements could threaten their financial security — and even prompt them to shut their doors. &...
A 30-second television ad shows off Poplar Bluff’s sparkling new medical center as a narrator says, “Welcome … to the future of health care.” Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center serves residents of rural southeast Missour...
For the last two years, the team at NoMoreClipboard has been working to get medical records to patients in real time and in a convenient format. Their work with three distinct patient populations has been a great education in governance for health information exchanges, but the important take away was about patients. “We always hear […]