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The Joint Commission unveils new telehealth accreditation program

April 24, 2024 - The Joint Commission is launching a new accreditation program for telehealth, effective July 1, 2024. The program will provide updated telehealth service standards for healthcare organizations using the care modality. These standards will detail the structures and processes needed to deliver high-quality virtual care. The accreditation program is...

Telehealth use led to modest care improvements, spending increases

April 22, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

Though telehealth utilization resulted in improvements in some healthcare utilization and quality measures, it was also linked to a 1.6 percent increase in healthcare spending, according to new...

What the House subcommittee hearing tells us about telehealth’s future

April 12, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

Jeanette Ashlock was only 30, fresh off her honeymoon, when she first started experiencing multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms. “My muscles and body started locking up,” the National Multiple Sclerosis Society patient advocate...

Primary, Specialty Care Physicians Favor Telehealth More Than Surgeons

February 07, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

More than two-thirds of primary care physicians and medical specialists said they were able to provide similar quality of care via telehealth and in person, making them more likely to be satisfied with...

Kaiser Permanente Study Shows Scalability of Hospital-at-Home Model

December 27, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Research from Kaiser Permanente reveals that its hospital-at-home program was scaled successfully, creating hospital capacity; however, the program’s care quality as it was being scaled could not...

Video Telehealth Quality Largely on Par with In-Person Care

December 07, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

A sweeping review of research on telehealth shows that live video telehealth is as effective as in-person care in treating certain conditions, like mental health conditions, but there is a concerning...

Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High

October 03, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Telehealth visit volume dropped from 76.6 million visits in the second quarter of 2020 to 41.5 million visits in the fourth quarter of 2022, representing a 45.8 percent decline, according to a new...

After PHE’s End, Americans Signal Preference for In-Person Care

August 11, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Despite the boom in telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans and healthcare workers largely agree that in-person care is higher quality, more efficient, and more affordable than virtual...

About Amedisys, a Home Health Provider That Sparked a Bidding War

June 14, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the home healthcare space is heating up, with numerous organizations vying for a piece of the increasingly profitable pie. Earlier this year, CVS finalized its acquisition of Signify Health, a home...

Hybrid Nursing Model Expands Following Successful Pilot

June 07, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

Following a successful pilot at Covenant Medical Center, Providence will expand a hybrid nursing model, Co-Caring, to ten additional units in its hospitals throughout its seven-state service...

NC Health System Launches Virtual Care Clinic in Apartment Building

May 16, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

Atrium Health has launched a virtual care clinic to provide Peppertree Apartment residents of Ascent Housing with remote care options. The clinic includes an onsite healthcare technician, a medical...

Incentivizing Hybrid Care Can Enhance Fee-for-Service Care Delivery

May 04, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

A new model that incentivizes primary care providers (PCPs) to use new modes of delivery, such as remote care, can "drastically improve upon" the traditional fee-for-service structure, new research...

PA Health System Launches Respiratory Therapy Services in Virtual ICUs

May 01, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

Beginning on May 1, Penn State Health will provide respiratory therapy services as part of virtual intensive care unit (ICU) services within two of its medical centers to improve communication between...

Most Physicians Find Video Telehealth Quality Inferior to In-Person Care

April 28, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

More than half of physicians surveyed (60 percent) felt that the quality of video-based telehealth was generally inferior to the quality of in-person care, according to a recent study. The study,...

UAB Gets $3.3M to Test Telehealth Cardio Program

April 25, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

After receiving a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a group of researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) explored the extent to which wheelchair...

Providence Launches Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Chronic Care

April 20, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

A new partnership between Cadence and Providence aims to add remote patient monitoring (RPM) and responsive virtual care capabilities to clinics across seven states, enabling providers to remotely...

Preference for Future Telehealth Use Does Not Exceed That of In-Person Care

April 05, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

New research published in the Practice of Medicine described that although telehealth gained a high level of approval and application throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, most users prefer to return to...

Missouri Disability Patients Gain Access to Telehealth Via New Collab

March 24, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

A collaboration between the Missouri Division of Developmental Disabilities, IntellectAbility, and StationMD aims to support Missouri patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) by...

Telehealth May Not Improve Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Quality, Access

January 27, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

A study published in JAMA Network Open earlier this week found that clinical outcomes did not vary among opioid use disorder (OUD) patients receiving treatment from clinicians with high or low...

Virginia Health System Creates Hospital-At-Home Program

January 24, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

To expand care options for patients with acute care needs, VCU Health has implemented a hospital-at-home program to provide high-quality acute care remotely, eliminating the need for hospital...

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