telehealth

Funding for digital health startups will reach $6.

Dallas, Texas-based virtual visits company Teladoc raised $50 million, according to an SEC filing.

Forty eight percent of employers will make telehealth services available to employees, in states where it's legal, in 2015, according to a National Business Group on Health survey of 136 employers representing approximately 7.

San Francisco-based Practice Fusion, which offers electronic health records and patient management software company, has acquired after-hours virtual visits company Ringadoc for an undisclosed sum.

Castlight Health, which went public earlier this year, inked deals with 26 more employers during the second quarter, including new deals with six Fortune 500 companies like Google, Sprint, The Kellogg Company, and Texas Instruments.

The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has released an unpublished proposed rule that will soon lead to changes in coverage under Medicare Part B.

Three million patients around the world were using connected home medical monitoring devices in late 2013, but this number will jump to 19.

Teladoc was one of the many signatories on one of the letters recently sent to incoming HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell.

San Diego-based Independa, which has developed a telehealth platform for seniors, has raised about $2.