Roughly three-quarters of the nation’s large businesses expanded their telehealth programs for employees during the pandemic, and many may use those channels in the future to address social...
Kaiser Permanente is helping expand telehealth access in Hawaiʻi with $143,000 in grants to four community-based organizations that support low-income, uninsured, and homeless...
One of the biggest challenges to telehealth adoption is digital literacy. Patients won’t embrace new technology if they don’t know how to use it.
Over the past few years, healthcare...
While the pandemic prompted an unprecedented surge in telehealth to address healthcare needs, it also highlighted the gap between those who can access care and those who can’t.
Now health...
The Wake Forest School of Medicine is launching five separate projects that will use telehealth and remote patient monitoring in determining how social determinants of health access to care.
A sixth...
A digital health collaborative launched in May has set its sights on developing best practices to address the social determinants of health.
The Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community...
With the pandemic limiting access to in-person healthcare, audio-only telehealth has surfaced as a popular platform for care delivery. But it’s not good for all (or even many) services, and...
Hawai’i is launching a new program to bring digital literacy and telehealth services to libraries in underserved parts of the state.
The state’s Department of Health is partnering with the...
A pilot program in South Carolina is tackling the digital literacy divide with a program that teaches seniors how to use telehealth technology.
Supported by the South Carolina Department on Aging and...
The University of North Florida is launching a project with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine how social determinants of health may be driving low telehealth access in...
The American Medical Association is adding equity to its recipe for successful telehealth expansion.
The organization’s House of Delegates approved a new policy during its June Special Meeting...
Emory University is partnering with a Georgia-based non-profit to study how telehealth can be used to help low-income, uninsured people with chronic conditions access healthcare services.
The...
A Maine healthcare provider has found that remote patient monitoring can produce meaningful results that go far beyond clinical outcomes.
Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice, based in Lewiston,...
The federal government is releasing $40 million in pandemic relief funding to support emergency home visits for underserved families, and is expanding the service to include telehealth.
The Health and...
While telehealth has helped providers with care delivery during the coronavirus pandemic, it has also created challenges for those who’d always focused on in-person treatment. This includes...
A new study being launched out of the University of Texas aims to see whether mHealth can improve healthcare access and outcomes for homeless people.
Funded by a grant from the Health and Human...
Telehealth is often marketed for its benefits to the patient and clinician, but what about its effect on the environment?
One health system analyzed the impact that its connected health platform has...
A Massachusetts-based consortium of federally qualified health centers is using telehealth to address barriers to access caused by social determinants of health.
The FQHC Telehealth Consortium, a...
Federal officials have awarded almost $13 million in funding to help healthcare providers use telehealth and other services to address rural health disparities.
Some 61 organizations across 35 states...
Telehealth compensated for much of the care delivery gap brought on by COVID-19, however social determinants of health effected utilization rates significantly, according to a study published in JAMA...
