Telemedicine options for employers in the United States are approaching ubiquity — a National Business Group on Health survey last year found that 96 percent of employers planned to offer telemedicine services to employees this year. Indeed the question for employers has moved from “whether to offer telemedicine” to “how to maximize the value of …more

Chelmsford, MA, April 17, 2018––AMD Global Telemedicine Inc. (AMD), the pioneer of clinical Telemedicine Encounter Management Solutions (TEMS) ®, announces the development of OnDemand Visit, a direct-to-consumer telehealth platform. OnDemand Visit allows healthcare organizations to expand their service offerings and engage patients in a convenient way. OnDemand Visit is a platform for healthcare providers to …more

The American Telemedicine Association, the leading global, member-based group uniquely focused on telemedicine, announced today its annual Fall conference will take place between September 26th and 28th in Austin, Texas. The conference, Edge 2018, will highlight emerging best practices in telemedicine and virtual care, which are accelerating delivery model innovation, program design, and technology implementation. It …more

Hello and greetings from the DC area! As we move to the final weeks of the summer, I wanted to provide you some updates on what we’re doing at the ATA. You may recall that one message we heard at the annual meeting in Chicago was we needed to do more than use technology to …more

Discovery Channel and Big Wave Media Gear Up With Dictum Health and AT&T for Shark Week in the BahamasParamedics Use VER-MEDIC Powered by AT&T to Monitor Extreme Survival Experts in an Ocean Full of Sharks CAT ISLAND, Bahamas, July 19, 2018 (Newswire.com) – Dictum Health’s Virtual Exam Room (VER) and VER-MEDIC set sail on the …more

We are pleased the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released proposed rulemaking updating payments for services under Medicare Part B and home health with improvements that indicate major progress for telehealth and the digital health industry. In its proposal, CMS included all of the codes that ATA proposed in December 2017 and June 2018. Opportunities …more

The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) has made available two funding opportunities – the School-Based Teletherapy for Special Education Services grant and Enhancing School-Based Health Care Services via Telehealth grant. For each grant opportunity, MHCC plans to award, on a competitive basis, funding to a single organization to implement a telehealth project over an 18-month period to increase …more

Care Central’s Advanced Stroke Assessment Module and Remote Access to Patient Radiological Images Reduce Door to Needle Time Oakland, CA, June 28, 2018 Dictum Health, Inc. – Innovators in telehealth’s Virtual Exam Room (VER) technology that supports patients across the continuum of care from incident to hospital to rehab to home – today announced the …more

Greetings from DC, where we seem to be in a nearly perpetual monsoon!  When I joined the ATA in March, I made it my mission to seek input from across the membership on how to create a stronger and more effective ATA.  As a membership organization, our community and collective voice give us strength.  I’ve …more

Combination extends Teladoc’s global market leadership, strengthening and expanding company’s international footprint, breadth of medical services and physician network Patients and companies to benefit from a single, comprehensive solution that addresses escalating healthcare costs and access barriers worldwide Purchase, NY, June 4, 2018 – Teladoc, Inc. (NYSE:TDOC), the global leader in virtual care, announces today that, effective …more

Oakland, CA and New York, –  Dictum Health, Inc. – innovators in telehealth’s Virtual Exam Room (VER) products that support patients across the continuum of care and Ambra Health, makers of the leading medical image management suite, today announced a collaboration to provide medical imaging to remote clinicians and specialists with advanced Picture Archive Communication System (PACS) connectivity and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) viewer. “We have broadened our Care Central …more

The ATA has partnered with KLAS Research to measure the Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) market. We’re looking to provide early insight into vendor and provider experiences in the RPM space. As a thank you for your time, KLAS Research will provide a free copy of the completed report to all providers who participate in the …more

ARLINGTON, VA, May 15, 2018. The winner of the American Telemedicine Association’s 2018 Pitch Jam is TalkPath™ Live, a New Jersey-based start-up offering live, online therapy, Federal law requires public schools to provide services to students with special education needs. As diagnostic capabilities improve, and diagnoses increase, students frequently face long wait times for therapy, …more

ClearHealth Quality Institute Webinar to Examine Telemedicine Accreditation as a Catalyst for Improving Population Health Outcomes Panelists Will Discuss the History of Telemedicine Accreditation, the Process for Standards Development, and the Benefits of Telemedicine Accreditation Annapolis, MD / May 15, 2018 – ClearHealth Quality InstituteTM (CHQI), an independent health care accrediting body, will hold a complimentary webinar on …more

Oakland, CA, May 7, 2018  – Dictum Health, Inc. – innovators in telehealth’s Virtual Exam Room (VER) technology that supports patients across the continuum of care and eMD, a New Orleans, LA-based telehealth company – announced today a partnership to expand access to specialty and emergency care in rural communities. Through its strategic partnerships and alliances, eMD is positioned to drastically change the landscape and the standard of healthcare in …more

Join the webinar Tuesday May 8th at 12:00 P.M. EST. For more information please download the flyer.

TELEMEDICINE UPDATE: Our colleague, Mohana provides this update on Zipnois from the American Telemedicine Association conference in Chicago: the company, an asynchronous telemedicine platform that sells to health care providers, expects to better tailor its service to specific patients, chief medical officer Lisa Ide tells her. Since last year, Zipnosis has been dispatching public health notices …more

CHICAGO, April 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — GlobalMed®, an international provider of telehealth solutions whose mission is to make healthcare more accessible, has announced a new healthcare business model that will make telehealth technology more affordable. The company introduced the GlobalMed Cost Simplified Solution at the American Telemedicine Association conference, April 29-May 1 in Chicago, in exhibit booth #202. Under the Cost Simplified …more

Oakland, CA, April 24, 2018 (Newswire.com) – Dictum Health, Inc. – innovators in telehealth’s Virtual Exam Room (VER) technology that supports patients across the continuum of care – is excited to announce the addition of video laryngoscopy to their end-to-end telehealth solution. The laryngoscope created by Vivid Medical is a single-use video intubation device that performs reliably during concurrent chest compression, on patients with an immobilized neck or in …more

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – April 13, 2018—GlobalMed, an international provider of telehealth solutions, announced that the U.S. Navy recently used GlobalMed’s technology to conduct its first-ever portable telemedicine broadcast from a ship at sea, transmitting vital signs and ear, nose, throat, head/neck skin examinations from the U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy.   Click here to see photos.   …more