Visiongain is out with a new report probing the global mHealth market and its current pace of growth.

The report in question – World Mobile Healthcare (mHealth) Market 2013-2018: eHealth, Telemedicine & Health informatics – outlines what healthcare professionals have begun to identify as key benefits of expanded mHealth adoption.

These benefist include improving healthcare system processes, collecting and retrieving crucial medical data and patients being able to manage chronic conditions better.

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Despite some initial resistance to the concept, the number of veterans warming to the prospect of telehealth therapy is growing.

An ABC News affiliate in Charleston, S.C. reports that the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center has become an industry leader in mental health research for veterans.

And telehealth therapy may play a key role in this continued growth.

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Chief among the arguments in favor of expanding the adoption of telemedicine and mHealth technology is the significant reduction in cost that would be achieved for both patients and healthcare providers.

A new infographic from TopMastersInHealthCare.com clearly points to the increasingly expensive nature of modern healthcare and corroborates many claims about the multitude of ways in which new technologies can ease these crushing financial burdens.

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This week, American Telemedicine Association President-Elect Dr. Ed Brown shared his expert insight into the current state of telemedicine and what he believes the future holds for his industry.

Speaking with Healthcare IT News at the ATA conference in Austin, Texas, Dr. Brown expressed high hopes for where telemedicine is going.

“My hope is pretty simple,” Dr. Brown says. “You know my passion is about improving healthcare. I think where we’re going in healthcare – basically every single new program or initiative needs to think about telemedicine, how virtual healthcare technologies can support their program because it’s all about better quality of care. It’s all about better value in care and better health for populations. I think if people start to understand the role of virtual healthcare, you will see it in every single program out there.”

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CareClix, a mobile health and telemedicine company, has released what’s being touted as a first-of-its-kind virtual medical examination kiosk called CareClix Exam.

According to details announed Tuesday, the medical examination cart incorporates up to 14 different FDA approved devices in order to transmit additional data into the CareClix core processor.

Doctors may therefore remotely listen to breath or heart sounds anywhere in the world when a patient walks into one of these virtual examination rooms or examine a skin lesion remotely.

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Revised estimates from the Association of American Medical Colleges indicate that digital health technologies may prove a valuable solution to the growing scarcity of primary care physicians.

The AAMC anticipates an overall shortage of 91,500 and 130,600 active patient care physicians in 2020 and 2025 respectively, and a primary care shortage of 45,400 and 65,800 physicians in 2020 and 2025.

But there may be a solution to this dilemma.

Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, famously observed in 2012 that 80% of doctors could one day be replaced by technology.

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The American Telemedicine Association says Medicare beneficiaries in 97 counties—across 36 states and territories—are slated to lose telehealth benefits.

Blame for the loss falls on updated federal delineations of Standards Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs). The new federal urban/rural categorization effectively revokes the option for Medicare recipients to receive healthcare services via videoconferencing—one of the most common and cost-effective forms of telehealth.

The ATA suggests that hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries will be negatively impacted by this “statistical realignment.”

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