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Skip to main content Telehealth platform company eVisit acquired health tech firm Bluestream Health in a deal finalized Thursday morning.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Phoenix-based eVisit said it will implement Bluestream’s integrated language services into its telemedicine platform. eVisit will add 198 additional languages plus American Sign Language from Bluestream's translation services to its

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Some changes to how we're able to get prescriptions online are likely coming soon. In late February, the US Drug Enforcement Administration proposed changes to pandemic rules that will affect certain controlled medications that are more strictly regulated by the government once the public health emergency for COVID-19 expires on May 11. In a nutshell, patients

April 5, 2023 -- Barbara Rosebrock was heading to the doctor’s office to learn how to use her 8-year-old daughter’s new insulin pump when health care as she knew it forever changed. It was March 11, 2020. With a mysterious new virus entering the U.S., vulnerable patients like Aubrey -- recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Telehealth programs for parents can improve the behavioral problems of children with developmental delay, according to new research. Florida International University (FIU) Psychology Professor Daniel M. Bagner and his team at FIU's Center for Children and Families led the first study of its kind, published in JAMA Pediatrics, to investigate how

When Brittany Tesso’s then-3-year-old son, Roman, needed an evaluation for speech therapy in 2021, his pediatrician referred him to Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora. With in-person visits on hold due to the covid-19 pandemic, the Tessos met with a panel of specialists via video chat. The specialists, some of whom appeared to be calling from

The Medical Software Industry Association has called on the Medical Board of Australia to think twice about imposing changes to telehealth rules, saying there could be "serious unintended" consequences. In a statement, the peak organisation for the health technology industry noted "significant" oversights from the Medical Board's public consultation on its proposed telehealth guidelines. The

Together, telehealth consults and an array of emerging digital health tools are helping streamline access to care and improve the patient experience for oncology and other specialty care. One place where that's proving true is The Clinic at Cleveland Clinic, that health system's joint telemedicine venture with Amell. Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic spoke