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...
Sens. Tom Carper (D-Delaware) and Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) introduced a bill called the Hospital Inpatient Services Act that allows for a two-year extension of the federal acute hospital-at-home...
Telehealth utilization increased nationally by 11.4 percent between November and December 2021 and rose from 4.4 to 4.9 percent of all medical claim lines, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly...
About 42 percent of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients received care related to their condition via telehealth, and a majority (77 percent) reported they were satisfied with the virtual care, according...
Of the 25.6 percent of Americans who reported using a telehealth modality during the pandemic, the majority were women seeking behavioral healthcare, according to a report published by Trilliant...
To combat issues surrounding resource availability within hospitals and patient comfort levels, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has unveiled an at-home hospital program that enables clinicians to...
Though telehealth is still on the rise, new data from the Peterson- KFF Health System Tracker revealed how the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic might affect outpatient visit preferences.
As the...
Researchers used mobile devices to capture geolocation data and monitor close contact between people to predict COVID-19 outbreaks across the state of Connecticut, according to a study published in...
Mercy and Tampa General Hospital have each received grants from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to invest in new virtual care technologies and expand access to COVID-19 telehealth services...
Members of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bipartisan bill that seeks to ensure permanent access to telehealth services.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), who is the chair...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and 15 other healthcare organizations have launched a campaign that aims to preserve telehealth access after the public health emergency has ended.
When the...
National telehealth use increased by 2.3 percent in September, but COVID-19 is no longer in the top five diagnoses, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
The COVID-19...
An automated texting program helped Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine lower the risk of death for COVID-19 patients who quarantined at home, according to a new study.
As the novel coronavirus surged in...
Telehealth increased access to care for New York State residents, with most patients attending audio-only visits compared to video visits, highlighting the digital divide that still plagues underserved...
The number of outpatient visits after hospital discharges remained stable during the COVID-19 pandemic but telehealth use for these visits increased, suggesting that telehealth was a substitute for...
Telehealth helped increase access to care and reduce stress for some skilled nursing facility residents and staff, but others faced unexpected challenges and consequences of telehealth use, a study...
Telehealth utilization rose between July and August 2021 in the northeastern, western, and southern states, with the South seeing the highest increase, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly...
The American Telemedicine Association, along with 48 other stakeholder groups, have written a letter to Congress asking it to make permanent the regulatory flexibility that authorizes telehealth...
Virtual visits for ambulatory care and behavioral health services increased during the pandemic, while in-person visits declined, according to a JAMA Network Open study.
Payers and providers loosened...
Using telehealth for lung cancer screenings was just as effective as in-person screenings and may help increase screening rates, a study out of Temple University Hospital found.
In-person care became...
