Telehealth
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.
The non-profit programme is being supervised by volunteer doctors from the Young Emirati Volunteer Leaders Initiative, in partnership with the Zayed Giving Initiative and General Women’s Union.
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.
Telehealth Connection TV: Telehealth is playing a larger role in advance planning for end-of-life care, says the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Silvia Perez-Protto.
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.
This was enabled thanks to an FCC COVID-19 grant that supplied all physicians with new laptops that feature HD webcams and processing power for seamless video visits.
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.