Patients receiving at-home hospital care under the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver experienced a low mortality rate and minimal complications resulting in admission to brick-and-mortar hospitals,...
Massachusetts and West Virginia researchers have developed and evaluated a wireless ingestible device that can enable remote monitoring of vital signs.
The Vitals Monitoring Pill (VM Pill) is a...
Following the expiration of waivers enabling out-of-state telehealth visits, patients tended to stop seeing the physician rather than switch to in-person care, according to a study published in JAMA...
Mental healthcare provided via telehealth can eliminate geographic and other barriers to care for youth enrolled in Medicaid, but only if they have the digital resources necessary for virtual care,...
While the likelihood of patients completing recommended tests and seeking specialty referrals is low across visit modalities, it is worse when ordered during telehealth visits compared with in-person...
Telehealth provides an effective strategy for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to a new study.
Conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo...
Earlier this week, a United States Senate subcommittee heard testimonials from a group of healthcare leaders on the importance of making permanent regulatory flexibilities supporting expanded...
The American Heart Association has established the Center for Telehealth to encourage telehealth adoption and use within the cardiovascular care arena, thereby mitigating healthcare...
A group of state attorneys general (AGs) has sent a letter to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the agency to address the issue of pulse oximeter inaccuracies when used on...
While remote patient monitoring (RPM) helped improve outcomes for Medicare patients with hypertension, it increased outpatient visits and net healthcare spending, according to a new study.
Published...
Amazon is offering Prime members access to One Medical’s virtual and in-person primary care services as a membership benefit.
For $9 a month, or $99 annually, Prime members can access on-demand...
The clinical evidence supporting prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) is lacking, with studies frequently excluding older adults and people not proficient in English and missing race and ethnicity...
A bipartisan group of four senators reintroduced legislation that would eliminate barriers to the virtual prescription of medication for opioid use disorder (OUD).
Called the Telehealth Response for...
Though the newly released 2024 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule did not bring good news for all in the healthcare industry, telehealth proponents garnered some critical wins.
Effective on or...
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health (UVA Health) have found that wearable devices can be used to glean insights into patients’ cortisol levels, enabling clinicians to identify and...
Telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase in the time physicians spent working in the EHR, though this work was largely related to documenting visits rather than...
Receiving care from medical practices with higher telehealth use is associated with an increase in mental health visits among Medicare patients with serious mental illness, according to a new...
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has released guiding principles to support the development, integration, and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
The ATA detailed six AI...
More than half of healthcare consumers (59 percent) said that if their physician incorporated health data from their personal wearable devices into their treatment plans, they would be encouraged to...
Though all 50 states and Washington, D.C., provide reimbursement for some form of live video-based telehealth within their Medicaid programs, only 25 provide Medicaid reimbursement for live video as...