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Cigna has announced that it will enlist the help of MDLIVE, a developer of telehealth technology and services, to offer eligible health plan members round-the-clock online video consultations with internal medicine, family practice and pediatric doctors.

An update to the Hospital Safety Score that assigns grades "A" through "F" to more than 2,500 hospitals in the United States shows they have made only incremental progress in addressing errors, accidents, injuries and infections that kill or hurt their patients. The Leapfrog Group, a hospital watchdog group, conducts the surveys.

Healthcare Providers Navigate Regulatory Hurdles, Protect Patients, Improve Care Delivery and Accelerate Electronic Medical Record Adoption Using Intelligent Systems with Speech and Language Understanding

Attendees of the American Telemedicine Association's 2013 conference and trade show aren't expected to spend all their waking hours inside the convention center. Aside from serving as Texas' state capital, Austin offers a variety of indoor and outdoor attractions on which to while away your spare time.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the American Telemedicine Association. Over the last two decades, ATA has evolved, embracing the ongoing changes in medical technology, telecommunications modalities and the delivery of healthcare.

With the recent push toward telehealth as a way to expand care and reduce overall expenditures, a new UK study calls into question the cost efficacy of telehealth, finding that, overall, remote monitoring comes with a bigger price tag and may not be worth it. 

Is telemedicine the cure for what ails healthcare? Maybe not singlehandedly, but few can deny that it is an increasingly potent part of the treatment protocol. For the last two decades, telemedicine initiatives have grown in scope and popularity because they consistently deliver results as healthcare providers face growing costs, declining reimbursement, an aging population, and demand is quickly outpacing clinician capacity.

Taking a cue from U.S. stimulus initiatives such as HITECH, Asia Pacific countries are seeing a big uptick in electronic health record adoption thanks to government investment, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan.

The U.S. market for remote patient monitoring, valued at $104.5 million in 2012, is forecasted to reach $296.5 million by 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 16 percent, driven by the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, according to a new report from GBI Research.