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Amazon Clinic Faces Criticism for Privacy Policy

Privacy concerns arise as Amazon Clinic’s policy requires patients to grant complete access to their health information, sparking criticism from advocates. Worries emerge over potential data sharing with third-party companies and targeted advertising. Amazon Clinic Uses a Hybrid Primary Care Company In 2022, Amazon made waves with its $3.9 billion acquisition of hybrid primary care…


Alarm Raised Over Amazon Clinic’s Privacy Policy

Privacy concerns arise as Amazon Clinic’s policy requires patients to grant complete access to their health information, sparking criticism from advocates. Worries emerge over potential data sharing with third-party companies and targeted advertising. Amazon Clinic Uses a Hybrid Primary Care Company In 2022, Amazon made waves with its $3.9 billion acquisition of hybrid primary care…


Australian Bush Telehealth to Push on Despite Looming Restrictions

Country Australians are increasingly turning to technology to bypass long delays in seeing a general practitioner (GP) for medical certificates and prescription renewals, as a crackdown on telehealth looms. Midnight Health, a start-up which offers online medical consultations, electronic prescriptions and pharmacy deliveries, says rural Australians make up 30 percent of its 85,000 customers. The Brisbane-based…


Treating the Common Cold With Telehealth, Brought to You by COVID-Era Madness

Commentary Have you ever experienced a persistent and severe common cold, only to be advised by your healthcare provider to schedule a telehealth appointment with your treating doctor? Nowadays, medical clinics discourage patients from visiting their doctors in person, presumably to avoid the risk of infection for their staff who are required to wear masks….


Biden Admin Delays Ending Virtual Prescribing for Controlled Substances

As the COVID-19 public health emergency nears its end, the Biden administration is seeking to extend telehealth flexibilities that allowed doctors to virtually prescribe controlled substances to their patients. Prescribing controlled substances via telehealth was limited before the COVID-19 pandemic under the Ryan Haight Act, which is a 2008 amendment to the 1970 Controlled Substances Act….


5 Free Long COVID Therapies People Are Doing Before Taking Medication

In this episode, Dr. Syed Haider, founder of MyGoToDoc.com, shares five things that you can do at home to improve your long COVID symptoms without taking more medication. These methods aim to rebalance your body, get your cells to detox, and set you on the right path toward healing. Haider treated over 8,000 people with…


Biden Admin Launches New Pilot COVID-19 Telehealth Program

The Biden administration on Thursday announced the launch of a pilot program that offers free COVID-19 services that includes telehealth consultations, at-home COVID-19 rapid antigen self-tests, and at-home treatments. The program, called “Home Test to Treat,” will be made available to selected communities across the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the government “aims…


Justice Department Announces $1.2 Billion Health Care Crackdown Tied to Telehealth, Cardiovascular Tests

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department unveiled a $1.2 billion health care fraud crackdown on Wednesday, revealing criminal charges against 36 defendants for alleged fraudulent billing schemes tied to telemedicine, genetic and cardiovascular testing, and equipment. The criminal charges, which were unsealed across 13 federal districts between July 11 through July 20, target clinical laboratory owners, marketers, medical…


Doctor’s Organization Has Treated Over 150,000 COVID-19 Patients With 99.99 Percent Survival

A doctor who has been offering free telehealth services to COVID-19 patients during the pandemic says that early treatment for COVID-19 works, claiming that he has a 99.99 percent survival rate. “We have a team of volunteer free doctors that donate their time to help treat these patients that come to us,” Dr. Ben Marble,…


Australian Telehealth Services Restored to Meet Pandemic Demands

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) announced that telehealth consultations would be restored temporarily to meet healthcare demands during the Omicron outbreak. AMA President Omar Khorshid said in a media release that Health Minister Greg Hunt and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg had endorsed the AMA’s proposals on Jan. 16 to restore expanded patient access to telehealth. “The AMA…