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Patients can wait weeks for a physician referral. This telehealth startup is reducing that process to a matter of hours.

Telehealth has played an important role during the pandemic. Telephone and online consultations have enabled social distancing and kept patients and clinicians safe from transmissible infections.

Women in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy will be able to obtain abortion medication after a telephone consultation

The advancement of private sector digital technologies and the creation of pro-investment legislative environments are vital to the modern-day healthcare industry, according to Altibbi CEO Jalil Labadi. After the coronavirus pandemic experience, the importance of expanding investment in telemedicine has become evident, noted Labadi, adding that Arab governments need to…

The service was cut late last year, but Labor made an election promise to restore it.

Systemic rorting of Medicare is artificially inflating official statistics that almost nine out of 10 patients are bulk-billed by their doctor and don't pay any out-of-pocket costs.

The devastating floods hitting large swathes of the country will put more pressure on the already-pressured federal budget and the cost of some essential items.

A report from the nonprofit March of Dimes finds that 36% of counties in the U.S. are "maternity care deserts," meaning they have no obstetric hospitals or birth centers and no obstetric providers.

Brain-computer interface (BCI), generative artificial intelligence (AI) and next-generation telehealth are among the 10 technologies projected to have a substantial impact over the next decade, says the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA).