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Employing telehealth to ease the hospice transition for kids with cancer

April 23, 2024 - Hospice plays a critical role in providing care and comfort to patients at the end of their life. A challenging time for patients and their loved ones, hospice care relies on coordinated efforts from various experts, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and spiritual advisors, according to the National Institute on Aging. To support this care coordination, one Georgia-based...

VR therapy mitigates pain for hospitalized cancer patients

April 16, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual reality (VR) provided significantly more pain relief to hospitalized cancer patients than a two-dimensional guided imagery experience, according to a new study. Published in Cancer, the...

Audio-only rehab improves activity participation among cancer survivors

March 29, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

A telephone-based rehabilitation intervention improved participation in daily activities among breast cancer survivors but did not otherwise accelerate their recovery, according to a study published in...

Creating a community-led telehealth approach for supportive cancer care

March 18, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

Cancer is a life-changing diagnosis for the patient and everyone in their orbit. Treatment of this deadly disease is all-consuming and filled with uncertainty, because of which cancer patients are at risk of experiencing mental health and...

Leveraging RPM to Enable At-Home Care for High-Risk Cancer Patients

February 05, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

The rapid advancement in digital health technologies post-March 2020 has expanded the boundaries of at-home healthcare. As COVID-19 forced hospitals to deliver more care outside traditional brick-and-mortar facilities, researchers began to...

How Virtual Reality Can Help Tackle ‘Scanxiety’ Among Cancer Patients

November 08, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

The cancer patient journey is fraught with challenges — physical, financial, and emotional. Managing the emotional toll of cancer care is especially hard as, more often than not, it is not immediately clear if therapy has worked and...

UVA Health Researchers Use Wearables Data to Enhance Cancer Care

November 02, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Researchers at the University of Virginia Health (UVA Health) have found that wearable devices can be used to glean insights into patients’ cortisol levels, enabling clinicians to identify and...

Black Cancer Patients Will Accept Telehealth but Prefer In-Person Care

October 20, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Black cancer patients prefer in-person care, partly due to a perceived lack of interpersonal connectedness, according to recent research. Virtual care uptake has been low among Black populations, with...

Using Telehealth to Address Side Effects of Cancer Immunotherapy

October 16, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

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...

App-Based Postoperative Monitoring Improves Cancer Patient Recovery

July 17, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

A new study found that a smartphone app-based follow-up was successful in supporting the quality of recovery and patient satisfaction among oncologic patients who underwent operations for breast...

Symptom Tracking a Top Benefit of RPM Use in Cancer Care

June 01, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Most cancer physicians, patients, and caregivers view symptom-tracking capabilities as a top benefit of using remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies in oncology, according to a recent...

Less Than 1% of All Telehealth Visits Are for Cancer Care

February 21, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Oncology-related care encompassed less than 1 percent of all telehealth visits between 2020 and 2022, according to recent research. Conducted by market research firm Trilliant Health, the study aimed...

Telehealth-Enabled Cancer Care Can Lead to Carbon Emissions Savings

February 02, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

A recent study from JAMA Network Open found that following the implementation of telehealth within a single-institution National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer center, there...

How Health Systems Are Using RPM to Extend Cancer Care into Patient Homes

November 18, 2022 by Anuja Vaidya

Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, concerns regarding the sudden halt of in-person care grew. As hospitals swelled with novel coronavirus cases, many worried about chronic care needs not being met – especially among cancer...

Cancer Center to Use mHealth App to Support Timely Access to Care

November 07, 2022 by Mark Melchionna

Following the receipt of the Navigation Capacity-Building Initiative Grant from the American Cancer Society, Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio aims to support equitable and timely care for...

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