Telehealth

Its latest telehealth project will allow family caregivers to monitor six patients remotely. 

The enhancements include improved video quality, multi-party calls and screen sharing.

Chris Wickersham, director of customer support at health IT consulting firm CereCore, discusses patient portals in the age of COVID-19 and in the future.

Matthew Fisher, general counsel at Carium, talks about bedrock principles of patient privacy, advances in RPM, CMS rules around non-physiologic data and how telehealth should fit into the continuum of care going forward.

Also: Fitness app FitOn raises $18 million, and virtual pediatric platform KixCare completes a $2 million seed round.

The acquisition builds on Best Buy’s previous investments in senior care and remote patient monitoring.

The AI medical station can generate an automated diagnosis that remote care providers can access to confirm.

Teladoc is pitching the expanded service as a way to improve primary care access.

In this episode of the Virtual Care Paradigm, Nathaniel Lacktman, partner at Foley and Lardner LLP, weighs in on the ways regulation can facilitate, not stifle, digital health innovation – and how providers can keep up with changes to come.

Telehealth can reach underserved communities, but there are barriers. A concerted effort is needed to increase its adoption and efficacy in a post-pandemic world, explain HIMSS' Rob Havasy and Kerry Amato.