Developed by engineers at the University of San Diego (UC San Diego), a finger-worn clip uses various smartphone features to determine patient blood pressure while maintaining...
Published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, study findings indicate that certain demographic factors correlate with telehealth use, with low-income Hispanic and Asian patients being more...
As reported in Science Advances, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) developed a wearable device that attaches to the forehead and chin to accurately detect obstructive...
Medicaid coverage of telehealth services between 2013 and 2019 was associated with significant increases in telehealth use and healthcare access, but private insurer coverage of telehealth during the...
Known as WearNet, a new deep-learning model created by researchers from Washington University in St. Louis uses data from the Fitbit activity tracker to gain insights into an individual's risk for...
Earlier this month, a group of six United States House representatives introduced the Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act, which intends to maintain regional telehealth access and Medicare coverage...
Published in JAMA Network Open, new study findings indicate that insured adults, particularly those who were younger, had higher participation rates in overall and telehealth-enabled addiction...
Interviews with primary care practice leaders in Florida and New York revealed numerous challenges to telehealth implementation, including a need for more explicit telehealth visit triage guidelines...
US Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) have reintroduced bipartisan legislation known as the Tech to Save Moms Act, which aims to leverage telehealth and digital health...
Fredericksburg, Virginia-based Mary Washington Healthcare has implemented a virtual nursing program at Stafford Hospital to enable registered nurses (RNs) to work from a virtual operations command...
A new report from the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) found that various changes in telehealth policies related to Medicaid reimbursement, private-payer laws, and professional requirements...
Earlier this month, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Congressman Bill Johnson (R-OH) reintroduced the Telemental Health Care Access Act to support telemental health services by eliminating...
In a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that hospitals could continue to bill for various outpatient therapies delivered via remote...
Piedmont Healthcare, Telemetrix, and Remote Care Partners (RCP) created a continuous care program that aims to assist providers in navigating patient data collection through the combination of remote...
In collaboration with AMC Health, the University Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is adding remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies to care for chronic conditions with the goal of lowering costs,...
A partnership between Included Health and DispatchHealth led to the creation of a virtual-to-in-home care model to support patients with injuries, illnesses, and diseases while allowing them to remain...
Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the US Department of Veterans Affairs described telehealth perceptions among Black Veterans with chronic pain, which included both positive and negative...
Atrium Health has launched a virtual care clinic to provide Peppertree Apartment residents of Ascent Housing with remote care options.
The clinic includes an onsite healthcare technician, a medical...
A new study published in JMIR found that Medicaid beneficiaries between the ages of 50 and 64 had higher telehealth claims during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to those aged 18 to 34.
Although...
A new study from the University of Washington School of Medicine (UW Medicine) found that despite an overall level of patient satisfaction with medication abortions, those that took place in person...
