Employing telehealth to ease the hospice transition for kids with cancer
mHealthIntelligence Hospice plays a critical role in providing care and comfort to patients at the end of their life. A challenging time for patients and their loved ones, hospice care relies on coordinated efforts from various experts, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and spiritual advisors, according to the National Institute on Aging. To support this care coordination, one Georgia-based...
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Using telehealth to provide timely mental healthcare in rural Illinois
Various factors are driving the mental healthcare crisis in America, not least of which is the rising demand for services and the concurrent dwindling supply of mental health professionals. As a result, Americans with pressing mental...
What the House subcommittee hearing tells us about telehealth’s future
Jeanette Ashlock was only 30, fresh off her honeymoon, when she first started experiencing multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms. “My muscles and body started locking up,” the National Multiple Sclerosis Society patient advocate told...
Common remote patient monitoring tools
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
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 break...
Establishing a telehealth alliance to boost rural healthcare access
Rural healthcare provider organizations have a formidable mandate: improve health outcomes of underserved populations with shoestring budgets and limited clinical resources. Though virtual care approaches have proven valuable in expanding...
How ChristianaCare’s digital cardiac care program is closing racial gaps
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...
Creating a community-led telehealth approach for supportive cancer care
Cancer is a life-changing diagnosis for the patient and everyone in their orbit. Treatment of this deadly disease is all-consuming and filled with uncertainty, because of which cancer patients are at risk of experiencing mental health and...
How a virtual-first approach can boost patient, provider experience
Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic set off a chain reaction transforming healthcare delivery in America, it has become apparent that virtual care is here to stay; however, it cannot fully replace in-person care delivery. Thus,...
Why UC Davis is turning to mHealth tech for post-angioplasty care
Post-discharge is a critical period for the overall success of any given procedure. If patients do not follow discharge instructions or clinical changes occur without the care team’s knowledge, the patient could suffer adverse...
Overcoming the Digital Divide Through Community-Based Telehealth
The unprecedented rise in telehealth use in recent years signified a new era in healthcare delivery that purported to meet patients where they are. Though the much-lauded benefits of telehealth technology are rooted in real-world evidence,...
What is Virtual Reality and its Healthcare Use Cases?
With the advancements in digital healthcare, various tools are now being used to provide healthcare services and support the patient care journey. These include tools typically used in other industries, such as smartphones, cloud storage...
How an FQHC is Using RPM to Care for its High-Risk Patient Population
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...
Developing a New ‘EyePhone’ mHealth App for Stroke Detection
Strokes are one of the deadliest killers in America, ranking fifth among all causes of death nationwide. The widespread prevalence of strokes is driving an urgent need for technology that enables rapid and accessible detection of the...
Using VR to Create an Immersive Mental Health Support System
Virtual reality (VR) technologies offer exciting new promises for healthcare delivery, particularly in the mental health arena. With advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing, and computer vision,...
A Deep Dive into CA’s mHealth Effort to Support Youth Mental Health
As healthcare stakeholders attempt to stem the youth mental health crisis in America, many have turned to digital health technology. The latest to do so is the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which has launched a...
What the NJ Lawsuit Adds to Out-of-State Telehealth, Licensure Debates
With the rapid expansion of virtual care in recent years came regulatory flexibilities to enable healthcare delivery across state lines. But many of these flexibilities have expired, resulting in a tussle between providers and patients...
Leveraging RPM to Enable At-Home Care for High-Risk Cancer Patients
The rapid advancement in digital health technologies post-March 2020 has expanded the boundaries of at-home healthcare. As COVID-19 forced hospitals to deliver more care outside traditional brick-and-mortar facilities, researchers began to...
Which Emerging Virtual Care Companies are Top-of-Mind for Health Orgs?
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...
Developing Simulation-Based Telehealth Training for Next-Gen Nurses
Telehealth has cemented itself as a vital tool in the effort to expand healthcare access and improve care outcomes. To keep up with the rise in adoption and use, healthcare organizations need trained clinicians who are comfortable with...
