When Laika Kayani started to lose her voice late one night last year, she picked up her iPhone and got connected to a doctor through a video-chat service called American Well. Kayani, who works at a health-tech company in San Francisco, used the app because her young son and husband were asleep and there were no […]

While some businesses may frown upon government-imposed regulations, MDLive is counting on Florida’s new telehealth laws to support its plan for rapid growth. The state Senate passed House Bill 23 on April 29 to establish standards of practice for health care providers that facilitate long-distance doctor visits through telecommunications technologies, also known as telehealth or […]

Americans’ use of telehealth has grown rapidly in recent years, but there is still ample room for the technology to scale up as consumers increasingly demand convenient access to healthcare. Between 2015 and 2019,  the size of the U.S. telehealth services market has more than doubled to $2.3 billion, according to estimates from IbisWorld. Currently, 76% […]