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How the VA’s Teleneurology Program Mitigates Care Access Challenges

mHealthIntelligence United States veterans seeking neurologic care face numerous barriers to access. These include transportation challenges, psychological hurdles, and the healthcare provider shortage. As a result, many cannot get the care they need. Telehealth has proved itself effective at breaking down barriers to healthcare access. The COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, showcased how virtual care can...


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Understanding Telehealth-Enabled Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Over the last three decades, the United States has grappled with a growing public health crisis related to the misuse of opioids. Starting in the 1990s, the opioid crisis worsened over the years, eventually becoming an epidemic in 2017....

Scaling an RPM Program to Enhance Chronic Disease Management

As healthcare provider organizations see the positive clinical results associated with remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs, many are working to scale the services to reach a wider swath of their patient population. There is mounting...

Expanding Virtual Care Access for Sexual Assault Survivors in Texas

A troublingly common form of violence in the United States, sexual assault drives the need for easier access to physical and mental healthcare. As modes of virtual care become increasingly integrated into the US healthcare system, some...

Exploring Tools for Virtual Behavioral Healthcare

Though the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been officially declared over, people worldwide are still dealing with the life-changing repercussions of the pandemic. This includes grappling with an ongoing mental health epidemic....

How Mount Sinai is Boosting the Digital Healthcare Experience

With digitally enabled healthcare skyrocketing, spurred by a once-in-a-century public health emergency (PHE), healthcare providers nationwide are fortifying their digital tools. Adoption of digital tools has spiked, with a 2022 survey...

Key Technologies in the Digital Therapeutics Arena

Amid the ongoing digitization of healthcare, digital therapeutics (DTx) have gained popularity, with providers and payers increasingly offering these software-based therapies to patients. According to the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, DTx...

Why the Hospital-at-Home Model is a High Priority for ChristianaCare

Though hospital-at-home programs are becoming more widespread, implementing and sustaining one comes with numerous challenges. The challenges of deploying these programs can range from developing new clinical workflows to social...

Exploring Digital Health Funding Strategies at Cleveland Clinic, UPMC

Amid the flurry of new entrants into healthcare — including retailers and technology giants —provider organizations are increasingly taking on a new role in the digital healthcare arena. Instead of only being the customer, some...

Why a New Provider Collaborative is Going All-in on Hybrid Care

Though telehealth use has fallen from pandemic highs, the care modality has remained popular among healthcare providers and patients. Now, health systems are tasked with implementing virtual care alongside in-person services to support the...

Understanding the RPM Market: Where It’s At & Where It’s Going

The remote patient monitoring (RPM) market has evolved rapidly since 2020, spurred by in-person restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few years, many companies have attempted to stake their claim in the RPM arena....

Exploring RPM Benefits & Barriers, From Population Health to Payment

With healthcare moving increasingly outside the four walls of the hospital, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools are becoming indispensable. How hospitals employ these tools are diverse, from chronic disease management to providing...

About Amedisys, a Home Health Provider That Sparked a Bidding War

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the home healthcare space is heating up, with numerous organizations vying for a piece of the increasingly profitable pie. Earlier this year, CVS finalized its acquisition of Signify Health, a home...

How Providence is Leveraging RPM to Alleviate Clinician Burnout

Evidence that remote patient monitoring (RPM) can enhance healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes is growing. But, if these services are not implemented effectively, they can exacerbate an ongoing and pervasive problem in...

Enhancing Patient Access, Experience at Virtual Care’s Front Door

Virtual care has evolved rapidly since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. From telehealth visits to remote patient monitoring to hospital-at-home, various virtual care modalities have become ingrained in the healthcare delivery system. But...

6 Remote Patient Monitoring Companies in the News

Amid the growing popularity of remote patient monitoring (RPM) services, several health systems have partnered with companies to launch programs and bring the benefits of RPM to their patients. RPM use skyrocketed during the COVID-19...

How This Early Adopter Leverages, Bills for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

Amid the staggering rise of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies were tasked with classifying these new care modalities to ensure adequate reimbursement. In its 2022 Physician Fee Schedule, the Centers for Medicare...

Addressing Hospital-at-Home Implementation Hurdles

With the advent of virtual care technologies, healthcare has increasingly become available outside the four walls of the hospital. One of the significant ways this has been accomplished is through hospital-at-home programs, where...

Leveraging a Digital Health App to Address Anemia, Maternal Health

About eight years ago, Huiri Kim was told that she might be anemic. She then did what many people with anemia symptoms tend to do — ignore them and hope they go away. "About 3 million people in the US have anemia, but I think a lot of...

Using School-Based Telehealth to Boost Mental Health Access in LA County

The youth mental health crisis in America has worsened considerably in the past decade, particularly following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A recently announced telehealth partnership aims to combat the problem by bringing mental and...

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