A series of changes in Medicare over the last month allowing health care providers to receive reimbursements for telemedicine services was something providers thought would take years.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has begun testing potential samples of coronavirus from its Exton-based laboratory, but has yet to see an active case in the state.

For the past year, expectant mothers seeing WellSpan Health obstetricians have had the option to reduce their doctor visits through a service offered by a Washington D.C.-based tech company.

Patricia Fonzi, 49, joined the Family Health Council of Central Pennsylvania in 1997 as director of development. She later became vice president of customer service and relationship management, and has been the organization’s president and CEO since 2015.

Griswold Home Care has purchased the former Red Cross building at 79 East Pomfret Street in Carlisle’s historic downtown district.

UPS will build a 315,000-square-foot warehouse made to store products for pharmaceutical, biopharma and medical supply companies near its transportation hub in Harrisburg.

Lancaster-based Dr. Jordan Balencic and his wife Tessa have developed a ready-to-drink, dairy-alternative beverage that contains walnut milk and other clinically studied superfoods proven to have beneficial properties for brain health called BrainMilk. To further their efforts, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a State College-based seed and economic development nonprofit organization, has invested $51,025.

Tawny Mummah, 50, is the former chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) and has joined Post and Schell, PC’s health care practice group as principal.

Rite Aid has launched RediClinic Express, a virtual health care kiosk, available in  southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey sites.

For a growing number of workers, Monday morning is coming earlier. And they aren’t happy about it. According to a recent national survey, chronic workplace stress is contributing to higher levels of anxiety among workers who often report having these feelings of workplace dread on Sunday nights before the start of the week.

Pennsylvania is ill-prepared to serve a fast growing-population of older adults, according to a new report from state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale.

While exposure to heat isn’t specifically covered under federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, Richard Hobbs, the newly appointed president and CEO of the Manufacturers Resource Center of the Lehigh Valley, said it’s still a company’s responsibility to keep staff safe from overheating.

Mike Breon spent part of his 20-year accounting career working to investigate questions from workers – their concerns and their tips about fraud – who had reached out through a company hotline.

Arielle Weidner, 31, joined ConnectCare3, a service offered to members of Benecon’s self-funded health benefits consortiums and cooperatives, last year as senior director of client wellness and consulting and recently transitioned into her current role.

A lot has changed since 1998, the year that Pennsylvania and 45 states stood up to big tobacco and helped create the Tobacco Settlement Fund, or TSF. Since Pennsylvania hospitals first began receiving money from the fund, it has been used to bolster health care in that state in a variety of ways. Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget plan kept the TSF whole, but The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania is concerned that this year some lawmakers want to use TSF funds to instead pay state debt.