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In a sign that some companies are swinging back from consumer-directed healthcare and looking to help the providers, one firm is developing a web-based and mobile platform to assist doctors in talking to patients about changing difficult behavior patterns.

The Ontario Telemedicine Network has cut wait times for skin specialists from 6-12 months to as little as five days, while creating a system that allows providers to collaborate with specialists much more easily and effectively.

Or could telehealth be a "sleeping economic giant" for communities that learn to view medical services as drivers of development?

Alaska's House bill "mimics" what the military and a tribal consortium are already doing in terms of patient-provider encounters.