The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is expanding the availability of the WEconnect Recovery app to people in Texas suffering from substance use disorders.
The app will be...
When comparing the use of telehealth among different pediatric subspecialties, a JAMA Network Open study found that pediatric telehealth use was inconsistent across subspecialties, with genetics and...
People with anxiety and fear-related disorders tended to use telehealth more than in-person visits when seeking mental healthcare in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent...
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, telehealth use skyrocketed, helping providers deliver quality healthcare when in-person services stalled. Though telehealth use has leveled off over the past year, providers and payers see the modality as a...
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) abruptly switched to remote care methods, including audio-only care modalities, for non-urgent appointments, according...
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...
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...
A majority of healthcare consumers across all age groups are as or more comfortable with app-based virtual therapy than in-person services, according to a new report.
For the report, Evernorth,...
In order to expand outreach, Albany, New York-based St. Peter’s Health Partners has joined forces with aptihealth to provide their employees and patients with virtual-first access to behavioral...
As providers take steps to figure out how to achieve strong behavioral health integration (BHI), a report published by the American Medical Association (AMA) has several suggestions for healthcare...
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...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, disrupting in-person care nationwide, those receiving treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) were suddenly cut off from life-saving services. Enter telehealth, which significantly expanded access to SUD...
Female, primary care, and behavioral health physicians were more likely to adopt virtual care early on during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to male and surgical specialty physicians, a study published...
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors has approved $49.5 million in research awards, $23.5 million of which will go toward supporting three research studies that...
Using telehealth to treat patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) produced similar, positive outcomes as in-person treatment, according to a study from the Rhode Island Methods to Improve...
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 Psychiatric Association is tapping the brakes a little bit on the use of telehealth for addiction treatment, saying the potential is there but more proof is needed that virtual care...
A Minnesota-based provider of mental health services is shutting down most of its physical locations and shifting all services to telehealth.
Southwestern Mental Health, which operates five clinics...
Health systems struggling to address a surge in mental health cases are using telehealth to connect patients to care providers. That’s especially true in emergency departments, where patients...
Several organizations are making an extra effort to lobby for expanded telehealth coverage for rural healthcare providers beyond the pandemic.
While telehealth advocates have been lobbying the Centers...
