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The West Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill Monday that would allow West Virginians to meet with a physician via Skype or other audiovisual communication methods, according to The Herald-Dispatch.

The American Medical Association has pledged to work with the HHS to improve the flow of electronic health information to patients and physicians to increase data sharing that will improve population health and help achieve smarter spending.

Here are six updates on ASC companies.

Farmington, Conn.-based University of Connecticut Health's expanded agreement with Bettendorf, Iowa-based Vizient has resulted in considerable savings. Vizient offers data-driven solutions intended to enhance patient outcomes and lower costs.

Patients forget between 40 percent and 80 percent of what a provider tells them during an appointment, leading to a broken, inefficient healthcare system, according to MedPage Today.

The worldwide global telehealth market is expected to experience growth from 2016 to 2020, according to WhaTech.

As patients make more of an effort to maintain a healthy lifestyle, more physicians have incorporated integrative medicine into treatment plans, according to THOnline.com.

In conjunction with La Peer Surgery Center in Beverly Hills, Calif., orthopedic surgeon, Steven Meier, MD, performed the first outpatient stem cell lumbar intradiscal injection and platelet rich plasma therapy for a patient with degenerative disc disease.

Here are 35 updates from the last month.

Here are the eight states with the fewest number of professionally active physicians, according to 2016 data from Kaiser State Health Facts.