Walgreens, one of the largest pharmacy store chains in the United States, made headlines late last week when it announced plans to enter the virtual care arena. The news spotlights retailers' advantages in virtual care, even amid a...
Virtual care modalities have been lauded for their ability to connect patients to healthcare quickly and conveniently. While not all types of care are suited to virtual delivery, certain services, like specialty consultations, can be...
The COVID-19 pandemic drove digital healthcare demand, funding, and innovation to never-before-seen heights. But as the pandemic evolved, so did the digital health landscape — and not all players have thrived. In fact, some have not...
As demand for convenient digital access to healthcare services grows among United States consumers, provider organizations are leveraging numerous tools to bolster their digital healthcare offerings. From online scheduling to virtual...
With the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the conversations surrounding virtual care have shifted. Organizations are less concerned with the rapid deployment of telehealth, instead turning their attention to assessing the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Amid a maternal and infant care crisis brewing in rural America, some hospitals are banding together to ensure vital access to care is not disrupted. One of the key tools being used to enhance care access is telehealth.
More than half of...