Telehealth

Project ECHO, a health IT pilot that launched in 2003 in rural New Mexico to connect rural doctors to specialists, is now front and center in Congress as lawmakers consider employing the model across the country.

In the first major overhaul of Medicaid managed care requirements in more than a decade, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published new rules on April 25 that affect how Medicaid works for the nearly two-thirds of beneficiaries who get their coverage through private managed care plans.

Here’s the rub: $50 billion might be hyperbole, but $5 billion is still a sizable enough market to drive innovations that health systems can harness to engage patients, better manage populations and ultimately improve care and the bottom line.    

(SPONSORED) The year ahead offers some promising trends—and optimizing the full potential of digital health will be the key to real progress.

Cleveland Clinic clinicians will be available for on-demand visits at CVS Health MinuteClinics in Ohio via technology from American Well.

The Konica Minolta Business Innovation Center is working to involve 30 U.S. health systems in the wide-ranging test program.

The popularity of health and wellness apps and devices is being fueled more by fitness or activity trackers than clinically-focused tools to help manage chronic conditions.

(SPONSORED) As the second installment of the two-part series on digital health's impact on pharma, CEO Ryan Beckland addresses remote patient monitoring and patient-generated health data.

More hospitals ranked telehealth as a priority than did last year, and many reported success at engaging patients and improving outcomes. 

(SPONSORED)The recruitment and enrollment process for clinical trials for drug development is a major challenge for pharmaceutical companies.