Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, new research describes a novel virtual care team strategy that successfully guided treatment strategies and boosted the uptake of...
Groups with typically low telehealth use rates experienced year-over-year increases in 2022, according to new survey data from Rock Health.
Rock Health conducted the survey between July 12 and August...
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) selected 12 finalists to participate in the second annual Telehealth Innovators Challenge, a showcase of the latest telehealth delivery solutions. These solutions provide a wide range of...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross MN) has entered into a new collaboration with Homeward, a hybrid care provider focusing on rural healthcare.
Blue Cross MN's Medicare Advantage...
Amazon has closed its much-anticipated $3.9 billion acquisition of virtual and in-person primary care organization One Medical.
The deal adds 188 in-person locations and virtual care options to...
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...
In her two-plus decades in healthcare, Bethany Doran, MD, has observed how the traditional model for chronic disease management is falling short, especially for seniors.
As a medical student in New York City and later as a cardiology...
UVA Health is partnering with community healthcare organizations and emergency medical services (EMS) agencies to expand access to telestroke services in Central Virginia.
The partnership, supported...
Offering telehealth options for postpartum care helped cut racial disparities in visit attendance, according to a study.
Published in the February issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and...
Telehealth use among clinicians who treat patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) dropped from 56.7 percent in December 2020 to 41.5 percent in March 2022, according to a recent survey.
Published in...
Editor's note: CVS confirmed on Feb. 8 that it will buy Oak Street Health for $10.6 billion, or $39 a share. Oak Street Health will become part of CVS Health's Health Care...
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred numerous crises within the healthcare industry, including severe staffing shortages. Some organizations with limited resources, like federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), turned to telehealth and other...
Follow-up visits were more common following telephone-only telehealth visits than video visits, though the difference in follow-up rates was small, according to a recent analysis of telehealth visits...
Published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, an article described a set of principles developed by the Collaborative for Telehealth and Aging that aim to ensure remote care is offered...
In 2020, private healthcare payers reimbursed providers similarly for telehealth and in-person claims, including mental healthcare claims, according to an analysis conducted by Kaiser Family...
Like many clinicians, Eve Cunningham, MD, has experienced burnout, though she didn't recognize it until years later.
"I mean, you get to a point where you just hit the ceiling, where you just can't take anymore," she said in a...
Most states took at least one Medicaid-related policy action to expand coverage of telebehavioral health services in response to COVID-19, most commonly expanding audio-only coverage of the services, a...
Point32Health, the parent organization of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, is partnering with Valera Health to expand access to telebehavioral health services in...
CVS Health is doubling down on investments in the virtual care arena, participating in two fundraising rounds to spur telemental healthcare and connected care efforts.
The retail healthcare giant led...
Telehealth visits spiked at community health centers during the COVID-19 pandemic, representing 21 percent of total visits in 2021 compared with less than 1 percent of visits in 2019, a recent report...
