The governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, has signed a bill into law requiring commercial health insurers to cover health-related services provided by telehealth exactly how in-person care is covered.

Zipnosis, a virtual care company, has released Surgical Care, an expansion to its telehealth platform that allows post-operative patients to receive care at home. The Surgical Care platform is an expansion to the company's current focus of urgent care.

Although patient resistance to telehealth declined 4 percent in 2017, understanding is still lacking, according to a survey by Avizia.

Telehealth has allowed patients to become more involved in their own care. It has also made them more influential consumers of healthcare. But such disruptions in medicine often face difficult regulatory hurdles.

What impact could telehealth have on overall spending? In an "Ideas and Opinions piece" published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, experts examine the growing interest in telehealth and outline the possible implications regarding overall spending.

The utilization of telehealth by older patients is linked to perceived privacy and security, performance and effort expectancy, according to a study published April 4 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has announced a partnership with Zipnosis, providers of virtual care technology, to provide AAFP’s 129,000 members and their patients with a comprehensive virtual care platform.