Chronic Disease Management

Audio-only telehealth boosts heart failure care for Native Americans

April 18, 2024 - Audio-only telehealth effectively supported heart failure with reduced ejection fraction treatment for Native Americans, leading to improved rates of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) uptake compared with usual care, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.   GDMT for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction...

Read More


More Articles

Remote care drove medication uptake among type 2 diabetes patients

by Anuja Vaidya

New research reveals that a remote care team focused on patient education and medication management can improve guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes who...

Common remote patient monitoring tools

by Anuja Vaidya

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a valuable healthcare delivery mechanism. RPM allows healthcare providers to continuously track patient health metrics over time, giving them a comprehensive view of the patient’s condition and how...

Why Ochsner & Humana struck an RPM partnership for chronic care

by Anuja Vaidya

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools and services have proven remarkably effective at improving chronic disease management. However, access to RPM programs can be challenging, particularly for underserved populations. One strategy to...

How ChristianaCare’s digital cardiac care program is closing racial gaps

by Anuja Vaidya

Healthcare organizations recognize that health inequities are detrimental to much-needed progress in clinical outcomes and care access nationwide. However, there is little agreement on how best to eliminate these inequities. Though virtual...

Digital health tools fall short of improving type 2 diabetes outcomes

by Anuja Vaidya

Digital management tools targeting type 2 diabetes that use remote patient monitoring (RPM) and behavior and lifestyle modification approaches do not provide meaningful clinical benefits, according to...

How an FQHC is Using RPM to Care for its High-Risk Patient Population

by Anuja Vaidya

A trenchant problem in efforts to advance virtual care utilization is that patients who would benefit the most from these technologies are often unable to access them. To address this issue, rural healthcare providers, including community...

Amid Rise in Hypertension-Related Telehealth, Racial Gaps Persist

by Anuja Vaidya

Medicaid beneficiaries across racial and ethnic groups increased their use of telehealth to manage hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the increase in use was lower among Black patients than...

Which Emerging Virtual Care Companies are Top-of-Mind for Health Orgs?

by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual care remains a vital area of interest and investment for healthcare stakeholders. Supported by technologies like telehealth platforms, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and virtual sitting solutions, virtual care strategies...

Palliative Care via Audio-Only Telehealth Boosts Quality of Life  

by Anuja Vaidya

A team providing palliative care via audio-only telehealth helped improve the quality of life for adults with chronic conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure, and...

Amazon Enables Digital Health Benefits Check for Chronic Conditions

by Anuja Vaidya

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...

Psychiatrists’ Telehealth Use ‘Well Above’ Other Specialists

by Anuja Vaidya

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...

Understanding Asynchronous Telehealth’s Benefits and Barriers to Use

by Anuja Vaidya

With the unprecedented rise in telehealth utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, it became increasingly clear that it was not a passing phase. Though usage rates have dropped since the pandemic’s peak, telehealth has become...

73% of Healthcare Execs Say RPM Programs Deliver ROI

by Anuja Vaidya

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...

How Connected Health Tech Bolsters Chronic Care, Behavioral Health

by Anuja Vaidya

Connected healthcare technologies are transforming care delivery, patient outcomes, and provider workflows, particularly in the chronic disease management and behavioral healthcare arenas. The adoption and use of these technologies,...

Evernorth Adds Asynchronous Telehealth Options to MDLIVE

by Anuja Vaidya

Cigna’s pharmacy, care, and benefits solution division Evernorth Health Services is acquiring Bright.md, adding asynchronous telehealth, triage, and care navigation services to its MDLIVE virtual...

mHealth Strategy Improves Diabetes Outcomes Among Black, Latino Patients

by Anuja Vaidya

An mHealth intervention delivered by clinical pharmacists and health coaches helped improve blood glucose levels among Black and Latino adults with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Published...

How Best Buy’s Geek Squad is Boosting RPM Tech Support at Geisinger

by Anuja Vaidya

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is changing the face of chronic disease management as we know it. Clinicians no longer have to depend on inconsistent and potentially inaccurate data on patients with chronic conditions, as RPM can enable...

Wearable Devices Can Help Track ALS Disease Progression

by Anuja Vaidya

Wearable sensors can help clinicians measure gross and fine motor function in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) from data collected in their homes, according to new research. Conducted...

Adults With High Heart Disease Risk Less Likely to Use mHealth Devices

by Anuja Vaidya

While 42 percent of Americans with or at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) use their smart mHealth devices to track health goals, those at higher risk of developing the disease are less likely to...

Recent Articles

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
©2012-2024 TechTarget, Inc. Xtelligent Healthcare Media is a division of TechTarget. All rights reserved. HealthITAnalytics.com is published by Xtelligent Healthcare Media a division of TechTarget.