Led by Attorney General Josh Stein of North Carolina and Attorney General Ashley Moody of Florida, a group of 45 attorneys is urging the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse...
As described in NEJM Catalyst, a program known as CareConnect created by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania uses telehealth to assist opioid use disorder (OUD) patients...
Most opioid use disorder (OUD) patients used telehealth to access medication, and of these, about 50 percent participated in telephone-only visits rather than video visits, according to a study...
Following a survey, researchers from Yale School of Public Health concluded that the majority of physicians who used telehealth to treat patients with opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Using a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers from CUNY Graduate School of Public Health (CUNY SPH) and Yale School of Medicine plan to implement a telehealth...
The expansion of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase in the use of medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and a reduction in the odds of medically...
A new collaboration between Bicycle Health and Evernorth aims to integrate virtual resources for opioid use disorder (OUD) into a behavioral health network to improve patient access to care.
As the...
SelectHealth, a Utah-based health insurer and a wholly owned subsidiary of Intermountain Healthcare, has added reSET-O, a prescription digital therapeutic, as a covered benefit for some members.
The...
While evaluating methods to ensure access to opioid use disorder treatment among veterans, a study from the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System found that audio and video-based...
Amid a major spike in opioid use disorder-related deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, a smartphone application developed by the University of Virginia (UVA) Health known as HOPE (Heal, Overcome,...
Penn Medicine and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health have entered into a partnership that will provide patients with opioid use disorder access to a virtual clinic, which includes medication...
As healthcare became increasingly virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth helped safety-net facilities provide opioid use disorder (OUD) patients, particularly those involved in buprenorphine...
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Syracuse University and SUNY Upstate Medical University have collaborated to create a wireless sensor designed to prevent opioid relapses and...
Though telehealth has increased access to care in a myriad of ways, a majority of physicians are worried that it does not give them the full picture of patient health — especially with...
A new project in Indiana aims to analyze the value of telehealth in treating people who are struggling with both substance abuse and mental health concerns.
The Indiana University School of Medicine...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital is launching an mHealth program to track medication adherence for patients who have been prescribed opioids.
The Boston-based hospital’s Center for Pain...
Federal officials are issuing roughly $1.5 billion to healthcare providers and other organizations to help them use telehealth and other tools to combat the opioid abuse crisis.
In the first year of...
Telemedicine has found yet another key purpose during the coronavirus public health emergency: the prescribing of controlled substances, such as opioids.
Per new clarification from the US Department...
West Virginia’s Blue Cross Blue Shield program is giving its members access to an mHealth program designed to improve treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), particularly in rural areas where...
A telehealth platform offering substance abuse treatment to pregnant women is just as effective as in-person care, according to a recent study.
In a study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers at...
