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 nurses and doctors who are trained to look...
South Shore Health is adding remote patient monitoring capabilities to its Mobile Integrated Health program, giving the one-year-old program telehealth and mHealth tools that aim to improve care management for more complex patients at home....
A Texas trucking company is using an mHealth app and telehealth platform to significantly improve healthcare access and outcomes for its employees. L&F Distributors, based in McAllen, found that business was slow in its nine on-site...
Remote patient programs don’t just automatically work out. They have to be carefully planned and developed in order to gain traction and produce results. Most importantly, they have to target the right patients. At Deaconess Health,...
A Massachusetts-based health system that saw a more than 50 percent decrease in office visits during the height of the coronavirus pandemic is using mHealth to make sure patients are still getting the care they’re supposed to be...
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic curtailing in-person care, physicians at Stanford Children’s Health are using mHealth devices and telehealth platforms to monitor some of their youngest and most vulnerable patients. Scott...
For people with chronic health concerns, mHealth apps and telehealth platforms offer an on-demand platform for connecting with care providers and enjoying a better life outside the doctor’s office or hospital room. For Bill Soloway,...
With the advent of more sophisticated telemedicine technology and ongoing emergency measures that expand telehealth coverage and access, some small practices and specialty care providers – especially those dealing with mental health...
When Jefferson Health received federal funding last year to purchase telehealth tools to help patients access care during the coronavirus pandemic, those in charge of the program realized they couldn’t just buy the iPads and connected...
An mHealth platform that automates contact tracing is helping Methodist Hospital of Southern California reduce COVID-19 exposure, as well as boosting staff morale and restoring public faith in a hospital that has seen a sharp decrease in...
When the Blessing Health System recently launched a remote patient monitoring program to provide care for newly-discharged COVID-19 patients, officials were quick to point out that the platform would allow patients to recover more quickly...
As federal and state lawmakers look to establish telehealth policy beyond the coronavirus pandemic, much of the conversation will focus on payment parity. That’s the biggest take-away from a recent study of state telehealth commercial...
While telehealth has always been seen as a means of improving access to healthcare for underserved populations, the coronavirus pandemic is proving that the barriers faced by marginalized and minority communities are still evident –...
America’s businesses have always run on the mantra that employee health is important to the company’s bottom line, and that lost work time means lost productivity. Now they’re beginning to see that telehealth can play an...
A telehealth platform launched last July at West Tennessee Healthcare to monitor COVID-19 patients has proven so good at boosting outcomes and reducing hospitalizations that officials are now planning to expand the program....
The Mount Sinai Health System is launching a telehealth program aimed at improving care management for cancer patients at home. The New York health system will be sending high-risk oncology patients home with an mHealth wearable and keeping...
With its nursing corps stretched thin, a Pennsylvania health system is using college students to support its new in-patient telehealth program. The St. Luke’s University Health Network has hired roughly 15 students to help in its...
The coronavirus pandemic forced many counseling centers to transition quickly to telehealth this past year. Some have had an easier time than others in adjusting, but nearly all have learned invaluable lessons in how to deliver virtual...
Dozens of health systems across the country are embracing a program that uses telehealth and mHealth to provide care at home for patients who would otherwise be hospitalized. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema...
A robust in-patient telehealth platform can save a health system millions of dollars, reduce workload stresses for care providers and, most importantly, improve care outcomes. That’s the take-away from officials at the Yale New Haven...
