Pittsburgh-based UPMC has launched a tele-emergency department at its UPMC Kane facility.
Launched earlier this month, this is the first tele-ED in Pennsylvania, according to the press release....
To effectively monitor and treat COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics developed a home monitoring program that helped keep a majority of patients out of...
A Project ECHO telementoring program that involved primary care providers resulted in a decrease in hospitalizations among Medicaid patients with diabetes, according to a new study.
Project ECHO...
As healthcare became increasingly virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth helped safety-net facilities provide opioid use disorder (OUD) patients, particularly those involved in buprenorphine...
Physicians affiliated with direct-to-consumer telemedicine platforms prescribed antibiotics more frequently than health system-employed physicians who provide virtual care, raising concerns about...
As providers continue to uncover methods of caring for COVID-19 patients, recent research published in Lancet Digital Health shows that blood oxygen monitors, or pulse oximeters, helped identify health...
More than two-thirds of telehealth providers said they use audio-only modalities to offer telehealth services, according to a recent survey conducted by the American Medical Association.
The survey...
The majority of pediatric orthopedic patients are satisfied with receiving care via telehealth, according to a study presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons...
The Federal Communications Commission has selected 16 new Connected Care Pilot Program projects to receive $29.7 million in funding.
This is the fourth and final set of approved projects under the...
Aspiring to enhance the future of telemedicine, a study uses information from community mental health centers (CMHCs) to discover the various benefits and limitations that accompanied virtual care...
Medicare beneficiaries most often used telehealth for office visits in 2020, receiving 54.5 million virtual office visits in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new federal...
The utilization of telehealth devices, such as continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), helped providers continue to care for children with type 1 diabetes as the COVID-19 pandemic upended healthcare...
The implementation of telehealth had a significant impact on missed follow-up appointments among pediatric patients with tuberculosis infections (TBI), reducing the rate of missed visits by 11.1...
More than half of providers (55 percent) said that managing unrealistic patient expectations for their virtual visit is a top frustration of providing telehealth services, according to a new...
Follow-up visits via telemedicine were as effective at reducing 30-day readmission rates among heart failure patients as in-person follow-ups, according to a new study published in the Journal of the...
The Federal Communications Commission plans to authorize more than $640 million to support new broadband deployments in 26 states, which will help boost access to virtual healthcare.
The new...
Audio-only telehealth visit volumes remained higher than video-based care at safety-net health clinics through the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for behavioral health services, according to a RAND...
Microsoft is adding several new features to its Teams platform to support virtual visits.
These include a feature that enables patients to request appointments with their providers within...
Kaiser Family Foundation researchers found that following the increase in telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with mental health and substance use disorders used these services at a...
Though a majority (63 percent) of clinicians worldwide expect most of their consultations to be remote within the next decade, 51 percent believe that telehealth will negatively impact their ability to...
