Arlington-based Evolent Health Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire telehealth company Vital Decisions for $85 million, with a potential earnout of up to $45 million.
A new Nemours survey shows most parents are now more willing to use telehealth for their children’s doctor visits. Like many health care providers, Nemours vastly increased its use of telehealth during the COVID lockdowns. And in a survey conducted a year after the WHO declared a global pandemic, 61 percent of parents say they are more willing to use the technology than before the pandemic.
Though plenty of patients will no doubt resume in-person sessions when it's safe for them to do so, online therapy isn't going anywhere. The question for mental-health practitioners is how ready they are to not just "make do" with Skype and Zoom sessions, and instead capitalize on the full potential of the technology.
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois – Epilepsy specialists will be able to provide telehealth treatment services with the assurance of reimbursement from the Department of Healthcare and Family Services under a new law sponsored by State Senator Laura Fine (D-Glenview).
In an effort to expand access, the FDA temporarily eased long-standing in-person dispensing requirements for mifepristone — first in July 2020 in response to a court order that was later reversed by the Supreme Court, and again in April — so that women could order the pills by mail for the duration of the pandemic.
There is not much to be said positively about COVID-19's impact on our healthcare system. There is one silver lining, though, that has the potential to be the pandemic's most valuable legacy for New Jersey and our country — the rise and adoption of telehealth.