Creating a community-led telehealth approach for supportive cancer care
mHealthIntelligence 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 other psychosocial challenges. While integrated support services have been shown to help cancer patients in their arduous journey, barriers to...
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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...
Leveraging an mHealth App to Improve Maternal Outcomes in Michigan
The United States is facing a maternal health crisis, with mortality rates that are three times the rate in most other high-income countries. Mitigating this crisis is a priority for healthcare stakeholders, including public health...
Key SDOH Considerations for Remote Patient Monitoring Programs
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) supports a comprehensive care delivery model wherein healthcare providers can track patient health metrics and adjust care plans in a timely manner, thereby boosting health outcomes overall. RPM involves the...
How Virtual Nursing Can Help Fortify a Workforce in Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic hit an already beleaguered nursing workforce hard, driving stress, burnout, and resignations among nurses to record highs. The urgent need to address nurse workflow issues and better support them has sparked fresh...
Patient Care, Policy & More: A Look at This Year’s Virtual Care Trends
In many ways, 2023 was a year of reckoning for virtual care. From sky-high funding and clinical promises verging on hyperbole to bankruptcy filings and an ongoing patient preference for in-person care, virtual care stakeholders had to...
Understanding Asynchronous Telehealth’s Benefits and Barriers to Use
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...
Using a Smartphone Attachment to Make Neurological Screenings Equitable
Screening people early and often for potential health conditions is critical for stemming disease progression and improving patient outcomes. With the advent of advanced digital health tools, various types of screenings can be brought...
How a Provider-Police Collab is Expanding Virtual Mental Health Access
Law enforcement officers play an increasingly pivotal role in connecting people with mental health conditions to healthcare services. However, amid strained resources and hospital capacity problems, law enforcement often lacks efficient...