Telehealth

Healthcare practices used on the International Space Station are serving as model for caring for people in some of the most deprived and isolated parts of the world, according to an article published last month in the World Health Organization.

Platform mimics an in-person interaction between clinician and patient, company executives said.

Mark Goodge, CTO for the Department of Defense & Health Affairs, shares his thoughts on the 2015 HIMSS Connected Health Conference and how the DOD is planning to utilize emerging technologies to improve healthcare.

Patricia Salber, MD, founder and CEO of Health Tech Hatch and host of the popular blog "The Doctor Weighs In," reflects on discussions from the 2015 Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston.

Meridian Health, the New Jersey health system, will launch telehealth services in early 2016 and has enlisted Lewisville, Texas-based Teladoc for round-the-clock access to its network of licensed physicians.

Demand and technological capabilities are driving change, Cathy Riesenwitz, a researcher with software firm Capterra, told Healthcare IT News.

Kaiser Permanente Ventures is betting big on telemedicine, investing $10 million in Vidyo, a visual communications company that integrates high definition video communications into electronic health record systems and workflow, Vidyo announced Monday.

Every year HIMSS calls on Congress with requests specific to advancing health IT. We check in to see what happened since 2014.

A pilot program at Vanderbilt University and VA found that patients, nearly three-quarter of whom preferred telehealth, received the same quality of care via video and phone as those who came into the hospital.

Computerized psychotherapies hold great interest for veterans receiving outpatient treatment, according to a study published in Telemedicine and e-Health.