Though a small proportion of older adults use direct-to-consumer (DTC) mHealth services, one-third do not share that information with their primary care physician (PCP), new survey results released by...
Though telehealth can help expand mental healthcare access, United States counties where mental health resources are low tend to also lack broadband internet access, hampering telehealth use, according...
The Federal Communications Commission released the final rule updating the Rural Health Care Program to support virtual care access in rural America through funding efforts.
Established in 1997, the...
New research from Mass General Brigham affirms the clinical benefits of hospital-at-home programs, showing that they are associated with low mortality, skilled nursing facility use, and readmission...
New research indicates that expanding access to telehealth services and high-speed internet may not close gaps in primary care utilization, as higher telehealth uptake was linked to groups with higher...
Amazon has taken its next step into healthcare, launching a new initiative to help connect healthcare consumers with digital health benefits for chronic conditions available through their employer or...
Virtual visits with physicians with whom patients did not have an ongoing relationship increased the likelihood of patients going to the emergency department (ED) by 66 percent, according to a recent...
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an ingestible capsule that vibrates within the stomach to create a sense of fullness, potentially helping treat...
Advance ordering of abortion medications via telehealth peaked after the leak of the Supreme Court ruling against the constitutional right to abortion, new research shows.
Published in JAMA Internal...
Following an investigation by New York’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG), telemental healthcare provider Cerebral must pay $740,000 in penalties and restitution for continuing to charge...
Physiological changes recorded by a wearable biosensor and analyzed through a machine-learning approach can help predict aggressive behavior before it occurs in young psychiatric facility patients with...
It is unclear if digital health interventions for stroke prevention and care are effective among historically underrepresented groups like the Black and Latinx populations, according to new...
Research from Kaiser Permanente reveals that its hospital-at-home program was scaled successfully, creating hospital capacity; however, the program’s care quality as it was being scaled could not...
Psychiatrists were the top users of telehealth in 2022, with 83 percent saying they had conducted a video visit the week prior in an American Medical Association (AMA) survey.
The AMA released a...
The Apple Watch can record arrhythmias in children, including arrhythmias that were not identified by traditional ambulatory monitors, according to recently published research.
Arrhythmia, or...
An analysis of claims data shows that audio-only telehealth services are most commonly used to address behavioral healthcare needs.
In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers examined...
New Jersey is facing a lawsuit stating that its out-of-state telehealth licensing law violates the constitutional rights of residents seeking virtual care with healthcare providers across state...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has granted California-based researchers a five-year, $3.2 million grant to study whether the likelihood...
Type 2 diabetes patients who received endocrinology care through telehealth alone had poor glycemic outcomes compared with those who received in-person or hybrid care, which contrasts with prior...
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs are yielding a positive return on investment even though many of these programs were implemented less than two years ago, a new survey shows.
Commissioned by...
