Airline Emirates, a flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates, announced it is partnering with French telehealth company Parsys Telemedicine to offer inflight virtual medical services to passengers in "telemedicine stations" aboard aircraft.
Emirates has invested more than $2.4 million in co-designing telemedicine stations, which include high-definition video conferencing capabilities, secure...
Editors note: This article has been updated with quotes from Walgreens and Everly Health Solutions to MobiHealthNews.
A federal judge in Delaware ruled that Walgreens must pay $987 million as part of an arbitration award won by telemedicine provider PWNHealth, which also does business as Everly Health Solutions.
U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews dismissed Walgreens' argument that the...
At his confirmation hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's controversial pick to lead the Health and Human Services, said rural hospitals will be a priority if he is confirmed as health secretary.
Kennedy told the committee that President Trump is determined to end the "hemorrhage of rural hospitals" through the use of AI and telemedicine, and...
Specialty care platform Lantern announced a partnership with digital substance use management platform Pelago to provide Lantern's clients with access to personalized substance use disorder treatment.
Starting next year, Lantern clients will gain access to Pelago’s substance use disorder (SUD) treatment via the company’s specialty care platform, which covers all substances and severities, such...
Singapore may be technologically advanced in healthcare, however, there may be sections in the health system that have yet to catch up – including sexual health.
In this small island nation-state of nearly six million people, sexual and reproductive health remains a topic too sensitive and intimate to be discussed in the open.
Access to the internet and the general acceptability of telemedicine...
The J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Telehealth Satisfaction Study released on Thursday shows a slight decrease, down 1% from last year, in patient satisfaction with direct-to-consumer telehealth providers and a substantial increase, up 18%, in satisfaction with payer-provided telehealth offerings.
The study, based on 4,070 healthcare consumers' responses within the past 12 months, measures patients'...
Venture Startups International, an Australian startup operating under the name Updoc, has raised its first external capital. It received A$20 million ($13.2 million) in investment from ASX-listed capital investor Bailador.
WHAT IT DOES
Established in 2021, Updoc offers a range of telehealth services, including virtual consultations, online prescriptions, specialist referrals, pathology...
Telehealth and medical transportation company DocGo reported a data breach in an SEC filing on May 7. The company stated it identified a cybersecurity incident in which consumers' protected health information was accessed and acquired regarding the company's U.S. ambulance transportation business.
The company said it took steps to contain and respond to the incident, and no other business lines...
Columbia, Maryland-based hospital system MedStar Health announced it partnered with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to bring acute care services to patients recently discharged from Medstar facilities in Washington D.C.
The partnership will focus on avoiding readmissions and visits, which typically occur 72 hours after discharge.
Denver-based DispatchHealth offers in-home urgent care...
AI-enabled cardiovascular company Cardio Diagnostics Holdings announced it is partnering with care-navigation platform Navierre to make assessing risk and diagnosing heart diseases more accessible.
Cardio Diagnostics Holdings' AI solutions, Epi+GenCHD and PrecisionCHD, use blood samples to provide patients with personalized information regarding their risk for coronary heart disease based on...
