Newly Approved VR Therapeutic for Back Pain Expands Scope of Home Health
mHealthIntelligence As care moves out of the hospital, various devices and solutions are emerging to enable patients to receive care at home. Among these is a device that leverages virtual reality to treat chronic low back pain that just got a major regulatory boost. Developed by AppliedVR, EaseVRx became the first virtual reality-based digital therapeutic for pain relief to gain Food and Drug...
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Telehealth is designed – pretty much defined – to deliver care from a distance, but if that includes crossing a state line, a whole set of problems suddenly emerge. Telehealth licensure has long been one of the most annoying...
How COVID-19 Affects the Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring Landscape
The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically altered the telehealth landscape, pushing providers to adopt or expand connected health platforms and tools to meet the demand for virtual care to replace in-person services. Vendors are...
Healthcare Turns to Telehealth to Tackle America’s Obesity Epidemic
America has a weight problem, with very serious consequences. And telehealth could be the answer to how people — and their care providers — come to grips with girth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
Tailoring Telehealth to Manage Back to Work and School Programs
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy, businesses and schools are taking a look at telehealth to help manage “return to” strategies. While connected health has long played a part in business health...
Factoring in Caregivers Adds Value to a Telehealth Program
Telehealth programs are so focused on connecting the patient with the provider that they sometimes forget about the other person in the room: the caregiver. And that’s a problem. Family members and friends who care for loved ones can...
Providers Plan a Post-Pandemic Future With Telehealth Strategies
With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March, healthcare providers across the country launched or expanded telehealth platforms with the goal of moving as much care as possible into the virtual realm. Half a year later, the...
Healthcare Looks to Telehealth to Address Physician Burnout, Stress
Like any profession that deals in life and death, healthcare has a stress and burnout problem - to which telehealth could be the answer. Physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession, losing 300 to 400 of their colleagues...
The Promise and Potential for Telehealth in Home Health
With the world stuck in the midst of a pandemic, health systems are looking to telehealth to shift the balance of care out of the hospital or clinic and into the home. That strategy is shining a spotlight on the home health care industry,...
COVID-19 Gives Providers a Blueprint for New Telehealth Strategies
It’s been said, rightly and tragically so, that it took a pandemic to prove the value of telehealth to the American healthcare system. As health systems and hospitals adjust their workflows to deal with the coronavirus pandemic,...
School-Based Telehealth Makes Health a Priority for Teachers, Providers
It’s time to add another subject to the school curriculum: telehealth. In schools across the country, the nurse’s office is being turned into a telehealth station, offering on-demand access to care providers for that nagging...
Ridesharing Services Help mHealth Programs Improve Care Coordination
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How eConsults Can Offer a Virtual Care Connection to Specialists
Using a telemedicine platform to connect primary care providers with specialists can improve care management and care coordination for patients. These services, called eConsults, can serve as a cost-effective way to expand access to...
Integrating a Telehealth Platform into a Diabetes Prevention Program
Telehealth technology is helping to improve care management and coordination for the estimated 30 million Americans living with diabetes. Now, providers are moving into connected care technology to help more than 84 million at risk of...
Remote Patient Monitoring Brings mHealth Care Management Into the Home
Remote patient monitoring programs have the potential to reduce chronic care costs and hospital readmissions and improve clinical outcomes by moving care out of the hospital or doctor’s office and into the home. Most of these programs...
Using Telehealth, mHealth Technology to Help Seniors Age in Place
From innovative connected care platforms to the Internet of Things, telehealth is showing today’s seniors (and tomorrow’s soon-to-be seniors) how they can live out their golden years in their own homes. The projected surge in...
Store-and-Forward Telemedicine Services Expand Connected Health
The emergence of asynchronous, or store-and-forward, telemedicine is giving rise to new platforms that stress collaboration and best practices over real-time, video-based treatment. Telemedicine is generally divided into three modalities:...
Telemedicine Robots: Out of Science Fiction and Into the Mainstream
Long a staple of science fiction, robots are now proving their value as a telemedicine resource. Originally designed to ferry supplies around the hospital or give surgeons a steadier hand for delicate medical procedures, robots are now...
Leveraging Primary Care Telehealth for Convenience and Quality
At its heart, the telehealth or telemedicine platform is all about connecting the patient to the doctor for primary care services. That’s where it all began: a virtual connection to treat a nagging cough or cold, a sinus infection or...
Telepsychiatry Opens a New Window into Behavioral Healthcare
Telepsychiatry is one of the fastest-growing platforms in the telemedicine space these days, due in large part to improvements in video-conferencing technology. Mental healthcare is described as the one medical field in which the doctor...
