Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in the United States rapidly adopted telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was linked to improved access to psychiatry visits, according to new research.
The...
Over the last three decades, the United States has grappled with a growing public health crisis related to the misuse of opioids.
Starting in the 1990s, the opioid crisis worsened over the years, eventually becoming an epidemic in 2017....
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia have launched virtual nursing programs in an effort to improve care protocols and ease administrative...
Researchers at the University of Texas Austin (UT Austin) have modified a commercial virtual reality (VR) headset, using it to measure brain activity and better understand how humans react to stressors...
While telehealth services related to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) skyrocketed during the pandemic, providers documented few details of the services with most leaving out the type of...
Ohio-based Cincinnati Children's is collaborating with Parkview Health to launch telehealth clinics to expand healthcare access for children seeking pediatric neurosurgery, rheumatology, and...
As healthcare provider organizations see the positive clinical results associated with remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs, many are working to scale the services to reach a wider swath of their patient population.
There is mounting...
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...
A troublingly common form of violence in the United States, sexual assault drives the need for easier access to physical and mental healthcare. As modes of virtual care become increasingly integrated into the US healthcare system, some...
With digitally enabled healthcare skyrocketing, spurred by a once-in-a-century public health emergency (PHE), healthcare providers nationwide are fortifying their digital tools.
Adoption of digital tools has spiked, with a 2022 survey...
Amazon's virtual care clinic has launched in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., providing access to telehealth-based care for 30 common conditions.
The technology giant launched Amazon Clinic as...
According to a case study from Blue Shield of California, hybrid virtual care has various environmental benefits within healthcare facilities, alongside improvements in the healthcare...
Though hospital-at-home programs are becoming more widespread, implementing and sustaining one comes with numerous challenges.
The challenges of deploying these programs can range from developing new clinical workflows to social...
New research indicated that the use of a hybrid care model for providing prenatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic did not alter rates of pre-eclampsia or eclampsia, maternal morbidity, cesarean...
Amid the flurry of new entrants into healthcare — including retailers and technology giants —provider organizations are increasingly taking on a new role in the digital healthcare arena. Instead of only being the customer, some...
Led by the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) and Pfizer Global Medical Grants, a new effort will provide underserved areas with access to dermatologic care...
Despite the increase in mental health conditions in the last several years, many struggle to obtain treatment, which reflects the growth and evolution of virtual healthcare, a new report from Amwell...
Though telehealth use has fallen from pandemic highs, the care modality has remained popular among healthcare providers and patients. Now, health systems are tasked with implementing virtual care alongside in-person services to support the...
Following adjustments to Utah law related to birth control prescribing, Intermountain Health created a program that allows pharmacists to virtually prescribe self-administered forms of birth...
A New York district judge has tossed out a class-action lawsuit alleging that Teladoc Health misled shareholders.
The lawsuit was filed last year in the United States District Court for the Southern...
