telemedicine services

DocGo Chief Executive Lee Bienstock is standing by the mobile-healthcare company’s performance under a controversial migrant-care contract awarded by New York City.In an interview, the former Google executive, who took the reins of DocGo in September, defended the company’s work serving the tens of thousands of asylum-seeking migrants in New York. He said the work fits into DocGo’s mission to provide healthcare in homes and other settings beyond traditional hospitals and healthcare facilities.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones…

By Rolfe Winkler and Brianna AbbottDec. 16, 2023 9:00 pm ETMatthew Perry’s death from the effects of ketamine brought new scrutiny to the booming business to prescribe the powerful anesthetic to patients in clinics and online. Perry was receiving ketamine infusions for depression and anxiety before he was found unresponsive in the pool at his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home on Oct. 28. Drowning, coronary artery disease and effects of buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid-use disorder, contributed to his…

Grail said its telemedicine vendor sent the inaccurate forms to 400 people because of a software glitch. Grail said its telemedicine vendor sent the inaccurate forms to 400 people because of a software glitch. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are…

WASHINGTON—A federal plan to resume tighter limits on the prescribing of controlled substances through telehealth has spurred a backlash from some medical and patient advocacy groups who say the requirements would create barriers to care. The organizations are urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to reconsider proposed rules that would let doctors remotely prescribe a 30-day supply of some drugs, including buprenorphine for opioid-use disorder, as well as ketamine and testosterone, but require at…

Telemedicine companies are facing a regulatory shift that many entrepreneurs say would undercut their ability to quickly prescribe medication that helps prevent opioid overdoses. During the Covid-19 pandemic, telehealth companies benefited from a waiver of the requirement that patients be seen in-person before receiving a telemedicine prescription for buprenorphine, a controlled substance used to treat opioid addiction.  The... Telemedicine companies are facing a regulatory shift that many…

The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the data-sharing practices of telehealth companies, focusing on widespread uses of data that many companies in the industry have failed to disclose to users.The FTC earlier this month reached a proposed settlement with BetterHelp, a subsidiary of Teladoc Health Inc., TDOC 3.43% over allegations that the therapy-focused telemedicine company promised to keep users’ health data private but shared it with advertising partners.…

Sequence is a subscription service that offers telehealth visits with doctors who can prescribe the drugs. WeightWatchers, which has long promised to help customers lose weight through food-tracking and lifestyle changes, is moving to also offer customers a medical weight-loss approach.  “This is the biggest innovation in our industry today,” said Sima Sistani, WW’s chief executive officer, of the new drugs. “There’s real excitement for the health outcomes of these medications.” Ms. Sistani, who has been CEO since 2022,…

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits edged lower last week, reflecting a persistently tight labor market. Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, decreased by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 190,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Weekly claims have remained below the 2019 prepandemic average of about 220,000 since the start of the year. The four-week moving average of weekly claims, which smooths out volatility, rose slightly to 193,000.…

Cerebral didn’t say how many jobs would be cut in its latest round of layoffs. Photo: Stephanie Aaronson/The Wall Street Journal…

Deerfield, Ill.—A year into her job as Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.’s WBA 1.21% chief executive, Rosalind Brewer realized the company’s board wasn’t entirely sold on her plan to save its ailing drugstore business.   Together they visited a Phoenix-area medical practice belonging to VillageMD, a chain of primary-care clinics. Walgreens, WBA 1.21% months into Ms. Brewer’s tenure, doubled…