Dean Ernest had been living in a nursing home about a year when his son, John, got a call last winter asking if his father was experiencing back pain and would like a free orthotic brace. The caller ...

Lexington, Mass.-based swyMed, a video telemedicine solution provider, has rolled out its DOT Telemedicine Backpack. The DOT Telemedicine Backpack is a lightweight mobile telemedicine equipment kit ...

IU Health offers telemedicine in many specialties and services including pediatric, neurology, pre- and post-transplant, dermatology, sleep analysis and stroke care. The stroke telemedicine program is ...

While rural hospitals are facing shortages of equipment, beds and doctors -- the health care industry is scrambling to continue regular care on top of executing emergency responses. Leaders in ...

Skilled nursing facilities were able to limit emergency room visits after implementing a more robust telemedicine program, finds a new study led by researchers at the University of Maryland School of ...

A state-funded effort to improve EMS services uses a virtual care platform to connect paramedics with emergency care specialists. Fire and EMS departments across South Dakota are seeing positive ...

More and more members of the military are coming back from deployments needing medical attention, and Vietnam-era veterans are aging. All that’s been putting strains on the Veterans Affairs medical ...

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and an adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National ...

COVID-19 forced Oak Orchard Health, a health system based in Brockport, New York, to change the way it did almost everything at its health centers – beginning with its inability to see patients face ...