The feds have allocated $32 million in FY2010 funds to pay for increased access to healthcare for people living in rural America. Of that amount, more than $2 million will be used for the Telehealth Network Grant Program, which is intended to help communities build the capacity to develop telehealth programs and networks. Read »

Following a mid-April announcement that AT&T would be building its medical-grade telecommunications system, the University of California and a mix of healthcare organizations, tech companies and federal agencies gathered at UC Davis Medical Center yesterday to launch the California Telehealth Network (CTN). Read »

Telehealth may have succeeded in capturing the imagination of the healthcare industry here in the U.S.--spawning a host of partnership efforts, joint ventures and other initiatives in recent months--but across the pond, lingering questions about the technology's cost effectiveness have given rise to an identifiable chasm between the early adoption and wider uptake of technologies. Read »

A partnership effort joining electronics giant Samsung and Raleigh, N.C.-based TeleHealth Services, a provider of healthcare grade televisions and on-demand interactive patient education offerings, aims to deliver to market two new UL-approved LCD TVs designed just for hospitals. Read »

It’s been almost a year and a half since GE and Intel forged an alliance based on their shared vision for the role technology will play in healthcare going forward. Now, the two tech titans are launching a new venture that will create a healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living. Read »

Veterans and people living in rural America are making the case for telehealth, as more and more hospitals come to view this technology as the pathway to accessibility that eventually will join the swelling ranks of patients with the shrinking supply of doctors and other qualified medical professionals. Read »

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based MedApps expects to see a spike in sales for its wireless remote patient monitoring system, thanks to a new reseller partnership with New York-based CMS Telehealth, a company that connects care providers and patients for better post-discharge and chronic condition management. Read »

Telehealth is playing an increasingly significant role in chronic disease management as health care providers look to implement technologies that enable remote patient monitoring, cutting costs and improving patient care in the process. A good example is Chicago-based Health Resource Solutions, a home health and rehabilitation care company that recently installed ExpressMD Solutions’ Electronic House Call as its next-generation remote patient monitoring platform. Read »

It’s official: This past year's back-and-forth between CMS and The Joint Commission over whether or not CMS requirements for telehealth put an excessive burden on hospitals has led to a formal postponement of the accrediting body’s plan to implement CMS telemedicine standards for hospitals. Read »

Ohio's largest provider of mobile x-ray and cardiac testing services has incorporated CompuMed's CardioGram and OsteoGram systems as core components of the Visio Mobile Diagnostics suite of telemedicine and digital x-ray-based healthcare services. Visio has begun rolling out CompuMed's digital telemedicine technology to hospitals, occupational and home health clients, as well as long-term care facilities in mobile and rural markets across Ohio. Read »