When Nurse Disrupted’s Bre Loughlin and Tracy Zvenyach earned Madison Magazine’s Top Nurses Innovation Award in January, it was for their tremendous effort organizing COVID-19 screenings at Madison’s homeless shelters. To date, more than 200 volunteer nurses have conducted 16,000 screenings. That work continues, unplanned as it was — the women were “building the airplane in the air,” as Loughlin puts it — but they never expected where it would land them next.
Shares of Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC) were a bit sickly on Monday after one of the more prominent analysts tracking the stock knocked his target price down.
The CDC reported 1.6 million doctors visited with patients using telehealth in the first three months of 2020, just as the pandemic began to move in. That was a 50% increase over the same time the previous year.
While there is bipartisan support from lawmakers, administrators, and clinicians for the continued use of telehealth following the pandemic, debate about multiple implementation issues remains, importantly: Should telehealth continue to be reimbursed at the same rate as in-person care?
(CNN) -- As the coronavirus crisis in India spirals out of control and its health care system crumbles, the Indian diaspora in the US is pitching in to help. Sitting thousands of miles away, unable to be there physically to help and feeling the grief and desperation of their loved ones back home, Indian American doctors provided friends and family with medical advice over phone and video calls.
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville said Thursday that its primary care clinic Walmart Health has reached a deal to buy telehealth provider MeMD of Phoenix. Financial terms of the deal, which require regulatory approval, were not disclosed. Walmart expects the purchase to close "in the coming months."