During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the federal government eased some of the restrictions placed on the provision of ...

President Trump signed into law a two-year extension of telehealth services for older adults covered by the Medicare health insurance program.

Over the past few years the common use of telehealth technology has been rapidly expanding. The Social Security Administration (SSA) desires to explore the growing role of telehealth in medical care ...

Over the past few centuries, healthcare has moved from the age of modern medicine with the house call to the centralized mean of production at clinics and hospitals. Patients wait in line to see ...

Beginning January 31, 2026, Medicare will sharply reduce its coverage of telehealth services, a shift that affects millions of older adults and people with disabilities who rely on virtual care to ...

Discover how telehealth leverages technology to provide healthcare from a distance. Learn about its history, benefits, ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faces the unique challenge of providing comprehensive care to a community that is geographically dispersed, often rural, and dealing with diverse health ...

Telehealth is an umbrella term that encompasses the use of digital technology to deliver a wide range of healthcare services. Virtual care is a type of telehealth that focuses on remote consultations ...

Telehealth uses technology to allow people to access healthcare services remotely and transmit health data between patients and doctors. Telehealth uses audio and video calls so people can attend a ...

Lee Health has been an essential part of healthcare delivery in Southwest Florida for more than a century, since opening its first hospital in 1916. The not-for-profit health system, one of the ...

Of all the medical specialties impacted by telemedicine during the course of the pandemic, perhaps the one with the most wholesale and lasting effects is behavioral and mental health. Mental health ...