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...
A little over half (57 percent) of US medical practices currently use remote physiologic monitoring (RPM), according to new survey results.
Commissioned by Rhythm Management Group and conducted by...
Follow-up visits via telemedicine were as effective at reducing 30-day readmission rates among heart failure patients as in-person follow-ups, according to a new study published in the Journal of the...
Sixty percent of Medicaid providers in California said that telehealth provided financial stability for their organization, a new report shows.
The report was released by Health Net, a payer...
Aetna has joined forces with Equip to offer its members a virtual eating disorder treatment program.
The program provides family-based treatment, which is an evidence-based model in which parents and...
Over the past two years, remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs have increased, with health systems using the care modality for various clinical activities, including tracking chronic disease patient outcomes.
Both providers and...
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...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $2.8 million to the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, which will be used to examine the impact of adding personalized messaging to its weight...
Though telehealth use among cancer patients skyrocketed early in the COVID-19 pandemic, uptake was not uniform across socioeconomic groups, according to a study published in JAMA Oncology.
Most...
With the extremely high frequency of type 2 diabetes in Arizona, Virta Health’s partnership with Banner | Aetna can significantly improve the health of this population.
Banner | Aetna is a...
Interest in home-based care is on the rise, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in health facilities becoming overwhelmed and struggling to ensure ongoing access to care. A key aspect of home-based care is remote patient...
Telehealth services, combined with remote patient monitoring, helped boost engagement and blood pressure control among stroke survivors living in under-resourced communities, according to new...
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) though by no means a new care modality is evolving rapidly, spurred by the constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding regulatory push to expand access to care.
In its simplest form, RPM...
Using telehealth for type 2 diabetes care during the COVID-19 pandemic helped maintain quality of care and led to better health outcomes for patients, compared to those who only utilized in-person...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, patients living with HIV were satisfied overall with telehealth appointments, but they identified challenges to virtual care, such as technology limitations and privacy...
Remote patient monitoring is growing in popularity in the U.S., especially since the COVID-19 pandemic restricted access to inpatient care. For many large health systems, the rising popularity of RPM has led them to expand or strengthen...
West Virginia University Health System, or WVU Medicine, is partnering with digital health company Virta Health to offer its virtual diabetes treatment to eligible employees in the state.
With this...
A researcher at Detroit-based Wayne State University School of Medicine has received a $2.5 million grant to develop a mobile management program with the aim of improve asthma control in young Black...
A North Carolina-based federally qualified health center (FQHC) has partnered with a remote patient monitoring company that focuses on chronic disease management to help improve virtual hypertension...
A glaring divide exists in telehealth use between white cancer patients and those who are racial minorities, according to a new study.
The study, published in Cancer Medicine, examined patterns of...