Telehealth use by physicians jumped from 25 percent in 2018 to almost 80 percent in 2020, while almost 85 percent of psychiatrists connected with the patients via video visit or telephone during the...
Federal officials are ditching a plan to speed up Medicare coverage for innovative mHealth technology, saying the Trump-era plan would have put patients at risk.
The Centers for Medicare &...
With schools returning to in-person learning or juggling remote options, the Biden Administration is investing more than $5 million in school-based health centers that often use telehealth to help...
With remote patient monitoring projects surging in popularity as a result of the pandemic, telehealth advocates are lobbying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve proposed...
The University of California at San Diego Health System is joining the growing ranks of health systems seeking to develop and in many cases commercialize innovative telehealth and mHealth devices and...
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a policy statement on telehealth that calls for, among other things, payment parity and more efforts to address the social determinants of health....
Five nationally recognized children’s hospitals are getting $48 million in federal funding to launch a Regional Pediatric Pandemic Network, which will use telehealth to share best practices and...
As healthcare organizations launch remote patient monitoring and telehealth programs to connect with underserved populations, some health systems are using the opportunity to establish new partnerships...
A new study out of the University of California at San Francisco finds that an overwhelming number of patients who underwent telemedicine abortions at a California clinic during the height of the...
The federal government is spending almost $11 million in stimulus funding on telehealth programs that expand access to pediatric mental health services.
The Health and Human Services Department...
The Federal Communications Commission has approved 62 projects for funding under the COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
The projects are the first to be approved in the second round of the program, which...
Roughly three-quarters of the nation’s large businesses expanded their telehealth programs for employees during the pandemic, and many may use those channels in the future to address social...
As health systems develop their own telehealth strategies to weather the COVID-19 storm, they’re putting that knowledge down on paper – virtually – to help other providers looking to...
mHealth apps for patients with chronic diseases work best if they allow the patient to share data with his or her care provider and offer personalized resources.
Yet a recent analysis of 10 top apps...
One of the biggest challenges to telehealth adoption is digital literacy. Patients won’t embrace new technology if they don’t know how to use it.
Over the past few years, healthcare...
Remote patient monitoring is an ideal strategy for large health systems looking to create an effective population health program – but it can also be a nice way for small practices and...
Senior living centers in Massachusetts and California will be taking part in an mHealth study to determine how a virtual reality platform might help seniors dealing with the negative impacts of social...
The pandemic has proven the value of telehealth to parents, according to a recent survey by Nemours Children’s Health. But it has also highlighted the need to continue emphasizing the value of...
House Democrats have introduced a resolution aimed at pressuring the federal government to loosen the reins on telehealth for abortion services.
US Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chairwoman of the House...
A pair of Congressmen are once again floating a bill that would mandate payment parity for telehealth services and require payers to cover the same telehealth services that Medicare covers.
The...
