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• Ethical considerations when providing virtual care

  The successful integration of virtual care relies on numerous considerations, including ethical factors that could limit the benefits of digital health technology.  Continue Reading

• Exploring America’s broadband problem & what it means for telehealth

  Broadband access remains a significant barrier to telehealth utilization, with millions of Americans unable to benefit from advancements in virtual care.  Continue Reading

• At ATA Nexus, stakeholders plan for the next phase of telehealth

  The American Telemedicine Association’s annual conference saw various discussions about the new era of telehealth and strategies to support that evolution.  Continue Reading

• Exploring advantages and challenges of synchronous video telehealth

  Synchronous video-based telehealth can improve care delivery in numerous ways, but SDOH and other barriers impede the benefits linked to its use.  Continue Reading

• Why Phoenix Children’s turned in-house to create and deploy RPM apps

  The pediatric hospital’s home-grown apps aim to improve patient experience and clinical outcomes in a population often ignored by digital health companies.  Continue Reading

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

  The House subcommittee sought input from patients and healthcare leaders on telehealth reimbursement, care quality, licensure, and more.  Continue Reading

• Common remote patient monitoring tools

  Remote patient monitoring uses various devices that gather vital signs and other pertinent data and share the information with clinical care teams.  Continue Reading

• What is Virtual Reality and its Healthcare Use Cases?

  Virtual reality holds promising potential in healthcare, with evidence backing its clinical efficacy and stakeholders indicating strong interest in adoption.  Continue Reading

• Leveraging RPM to Enable At-Home Care for High-Risk Cancer Patients

  RPM tools can help improve cancer patient outcomes and experience, but patient engagement and selecting the right technology are key considerations for success.  Continue Reading

• Which Emerging Virtual Care Companies are Top-of-Mind for Health Orgs?

  KLAS highlighted six virtual care companies founded in the last decade that are capturing the interest of healthcare organizations in 2024.  Continue Reading

• Key SDOH Considerations for Remote Patient Monitoring Programs

  Though RPM programs are linked to various patient care benefits, there are social determinants of health factors that make access and engagement a challenge.  Continue Reading

• Patient Care, Policy & More: A Look at This Year’s Virtual Care Trends

  The telehealth industry held steady on several fronts last year, but experts say 2024 will be different as stakeholders determine the future of virtual care.  Continue Reading

• Understanding Asynchronous Telehealth’s Benefits and Barriers to Use

  Asynchronous telehealth provides numerous advantages, including convenience and timely access to care, but challenges to adoption and use remain.    Continue Reading

• Virtual Care Technologies to Support Aging in Place

  Older adults increasingly want to age in their homes, and virtual care technologies, like telehealth and wearables, are crucial to enabling this.  Continue Reading

• Using Healthcare VR Technology to Improve Pain Management

  Advanced healthcare technology, like virtual reality, can support pain management goals, but barriers like clinical trials and reimbursement remain.  Continue Reading

• Understanding the Role of Chatbots in Virtual Care Delivery

  Chatbots are a significant virtual care resource, with use cases ranging from triage to mental healthcare, but there are risks related to their growing use.  Continue Reading

• How Connected Health Tech Bolsters Chronic Care, Behavioral Health

  Connected health tools, like wearables and telehealth, can enhance chronic disease management and behavioral healthcare, but obstacles to adoption and use remain.  Continue Reading

• Connected Healthcare Strategies to Boost Rural Access, Digital Equity

  As healthcare providers expand hybrid care models, they must ensure that connected care efforts benefit underserved populations and boost equitable care.  Continue Reading

• Exploring the ATA's New Tools to Address Telehealth Disparities

  The American Telemedicine Association launched three tools to support healthcare stakeholders as they work to curb telehealth-related inequities.  Continue Reading

• Providers Make Impassioned Plea for Virtual Prescribing Flexibilities

  Healthcare providers urged the DEA to allow virtual prescribing of controlled substances without in-person requirements, advocating for streamlined regulations.  Continue Reading

• How Best Buy's Geek Squad is Boosting RPM Tech Support at Geisinger

  The organizations are expanding their remote patient monitoring partnership to enhance chronic disease management and address patient-facing technology barriers.  Continue Reading

• Health Technologies Driving Hospital-at-Home Programs

  The hospital-at-home model is gaining momentum, supported by various types of health technologies, including remote patient monitoring, telehealth, and analytics.  Continue Reading

• Understanding Telehealth-Enabled Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

  Telehealth has emerged as a critical treatment option for OUD patients, making examining virtual OUD care strategies, research, and regulations essential.  Continue Reading

• Exploring Tools for Virtual Behavioral Healthcare

  Amid the ongoing mental health crisis, virtual care technologies are increasingly being used to address a range of conditions, including anxiety and depression.    Continue Reading

• Key Technologies in the Digital Therapeutics Arena

  Various types of technology enable the delivery of digital therapeutic interventions, including mHealth apps, wearables, and artificial intelligence.  Continue Reading

• Exploring RPM Benefits & Barriers, From Population Health to Payment

  Remote patient monitoring is staking its claim in the post-COVID world, but barriers to use remain, like patient engagement and reimbursement challenges.    Continue Reading

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

  Option Care Health and Optum both want to merge with Amedisys, one of the largest home healthcare providers in the country, caring for nearly half a million patients annually.  Continue Reading

• 6 Remote Patient Monitoring Companies in the News

  To meet the rising demand for RPM services, provider organizations have increasingly partnered with vendors that can meet their patient population's unique needs.  Continue Reading

• Meet the ATA's 12 Telehealth Innovators Challenge Finalists

  The 12 virtual care companies, selected out of a group of 40, will compete in the second annual Telehealth Innovators Challenge taking place at the ATA2023 conference in March.  Continue Reading

• Understanding Telehealth Barriers for Limited English Proficiency Patients

  Research shows that patients with limited English proficiency may struggle to access and use telehealth services, but several strategies can be employed to address this issue.  Continue Reading

• Hospital-at-Home Care Model: What it is and Why it Works 

  The hospital-at-home model has grown in popularity amid the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling healthcare organizations to provide acute-level care in patient homes and expanding needed access to care.  Continue Reading

• How Healthcare Providers, Payers Are Connecting Patients to Care

  At the Connected Health Virtual Summit, Banner Health and UnitedHealthcare leaders offered a glimpse into the technologies and care delivery models they use to connect patients to healthcare.  Continue Reading

• Overcoming Digital Access, Technology Integration Hurdles to Connected Care

  At the Connected Health Virtual Summit, healthcare leaders shared the challenges they are facing with implementing and expanding connected care efforts and how they are working to break down barriers.  Continue Reading

• Why Telehealth Has Become an Integral Part of the Mental Healthcare Landscape  

  During a virtual panel, experts discussed the benefits of telemental care, which include expanding care access and closing health equity gaps, and noted key trends that may influence its future use.  Continue Reading

• How Virtual Care Uptake Can Support Seniors Aging in Place

  The concept of aging in place is growing popular as more seniors live longer and more active lives, but virtual care technology is needed to help make the concept a reality.  Continue Reading

• Expanding Telehealth Key to Care Access, But Tech Infrastructure Needs Upgrade

  According to Sen. John Thune, ensuring access to telehealth is critical, especially to combat the mental health epidemic, but several infrastructure upgrades are needed to support adoption and use.     Continue Reading

• Exploring Clinical Care Use Cases, Digital Health Literacy Gaps in RPM

  Advances in remote patient monitoring have unlocked new patient care strategies, including hospital-at-home programs and digital chronic care management, but key barriers must be mitigated.  Continue Reading

• How Best Buy Plans to Facilitate Provider-Patient Connections to Further RPM

  As Best Buy grows its healthcare footprint through multimillion-dollar acquisitions, its aspirations remain focused on being the technology partner that connects stakeholders.  Continue Reading

• Using Telehealth to Expand Patient Access to Breastfeeding Support

  Through a new partnership, Trinity Health of New England is offering a virtual program to help boost access to breastfeeding support amid the pandemic and ongoing baby formula supply issues.   Continue Reading

• 4 Chronic Care Use Cases for Remote Patient Monitoring

  Remote patient monitoring can help enhance chronic care management in many ways, including allowing clinicians to track their patients daily and adjust treatment plans in real time.  Continue Reading

• What Are Digital Therapeutics and Their Use Cases?

  Over the past decade, a new category of medicine has emerged that delivers evidence-backed treatment through software to combat various conditions, including diabetes, pain, and PTSD.  Continue Reading

• HHS, Providers View Audio-Only Telehealth as Key Health Equity Strategy

  At HHS' inaugural National Telehealth Conference, federal agency leaders and providers spoke about the importance of expanding access to telehealth equitably, zeroing in on the value of audio-only modalities.  Continue Reading

• Key Features of mHealth Apps & Trends in Use

  With hundreds of thousands of mHealth apps on the market, no two are the same, but there are certain characteristics that make these tools especially valuable to healthcare consumers.  Continue Reading

• Establishing Strong Provider-Patient Relationships Through a Screen

  Telehealth can make it harder for clinicians to establish solid relationships with patients, but comprehensive training and a shift in mindset can go a long way toward ensuring patient satisfaction.  Continue Reading

• Understanding Key Telehealth Disparities & Patient-Facing Barriers

  Though the telehealth spike in recent years has largely been beneficial for patients, there are several entrenched care gaps and access barriers widening health inequities that must be addressed.  Continue Reading

• Telehealth Snapshot: Use Cases, Policies & Hybrid Care

  At the Telehealth22 Virtual Summit, telehealth experts gathered to discuss virtual chronic disease management, the evolving hybrid care model, the regulatory landscape, and more.   Continue Reading

• How Providers Can Optimize Telehealth Workflows and Improve Experience

  To ensure patient safety and clinician wellbeing, telehealth workflows and human factors considerations need to be fine-tuned as virtual care becomes a mainstay in healthcare delivery.  Continue Reading

• How a Not-So-New Concept Buoyed Mayo, Advocate Aurora Amid a Crisis

  Electronic ICUs are not a new virtual care delivery model, but health systems with established programs were able to leverage them to support care in and outside their facilities during the pandemic.  Continue Reading

• Incorporating a Human Element Into RPM Services

  Even as RPM technology evolves, making remote care more efficient and accessible, one New York-based provider is incorporating a human element into its services to boost engagement and support.  Continue Reading

• Using Data Analytics to Enhance Telehealth Services

  Children's National is leveraging a data analytics platform and dashboard to guide its efforts to ensure equitable virtual care for its pediatric patient population.  Continue Reading

• Key Elements of Top Mobile Patient Portal Apps

  Patient portal applications have become an integral part of the digital transformation of healthcare in America, and certain features, like scheduling and bill payment, are a must-have.  Continue Reading

• RPM 101: What Is Remote Patient Monitoring, Its Benefits, and Uses?

  Remote patient monitoring programs, technologies, and protocols are becoming increasingly popular, backed by growing clinical evidence and a slew of non-clinical benefits.   Continue Reading

• How FQHCs Are Standing Up, Sustaining Remote Patient Monitoring Programs

  Federally qualified health centers are seeing improvements among chronic care patients enrolled in RPM programs, but hurdles to implementation remain, including adjusting staff workflows.  Continue Reading

• What 2022 Could Have in Store for Laws Governing Telehealth

  Numerous telehealth bills are winding their way through Congress, and while they appear to have solid, bipartisan support, there are some key factors that could hold back their passage.  Continue Reading

• Why Stanford Wants to Make CGM a Standard of Care for Diabetic Kids

  Continuous monitoring of blood glucose, both by patients and remotely by their care teams, can help kids with type 1 diabetes achieve tighter glucose control and improve outcomes, a new study shows.  Continue Reading

• Using Telehealth to Treat SUD Has its Benefits, But Needs Improvements

  There are several pros to treating substance use disorders virtually, but there remain hurdles, particularly in the regulatory and technology access arenas, that need to be overcome.    Continue Reading

• How Telehealth Will Continue its Evolution Beyond Pandemic Response

  As in-person care resumed, telehealth use evolved to target specific conditions and types of care, driving changes in reimbursement and providers' preparations for the future.  Continue Reading

• How UPMC is Tackling Telehealth No-Shows, Missed Appointments

  Despite the convenience telehealth offers, UPMC sees similar no-show rates for both virtual and in-person care, leading the health system to implement several strategies to combat the issue.  Continue Reading

• How Abortion Providers Plan to Use Telehealth to Bolster Post-Roe Access

  As the future of Roe v Wade hangs in the balance, providers are making preparations to ensure access to safe and legal abortions, including via telehealth.     Continue Reading

• Using Remote Patient Monitoring to Improve Quality Metrics, Experience

  Dr. Alan Smith of Delta, Utah, is seeing encouraging results from his recently implemented remote patient monitoring program, including improved quality metrics and enthusiastic patients.   Continue Reading

• As Telehealth Use Increased, Physicians' Webside Manner Evolved

  Telehealth demand spiked in the last year, taking the all-important provider-patient relationship virtual, resulting in a unique set of benefits and challenges.  Continue Reading

• Why Asynchronous Telehealth Has Been a Boon for Patients, Providers 

  UnityPoint Health, which has been using an asynchronous telehealth platform since November, has seen a myriad of benefits from using the service along with other types of care.  Continue Reading

• Newly Approved VR Therapeutic for Back Pain Expands Scope of Home Health

  EaseVRx, the first FDA-approved VR therapeutic for pain relief, guides patients through an eight-week program that teaches them cognitive behavioral skills to help them manage their pain at home.  Continue Reading

• Examining the Benefits and Challenges of Audio-Only Telehealth

  The recent debate over audio-only telehealth coverage centers on the value of the phone call. Is it a proper method for healthcare delivery, and should doctors be reimbursed for it?  Continue Reading

• 4 Strategies for Solving the Telehealth Licensure Debate

  Telehealth licensure has long been a problem for providers looking to expand their connected health reach. The four most popular solutions are compacts, portability, one federal license for everyone and keeping the status quo.  Continue Reading

• How COVID-19 Affects the Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring Landscape

  With lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic, health systems and telehealth vendors are shaping their connected health strategies - and identifying key trends - for years to come.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare Turns to Telehealth to Tackle America’s Obesity Epidemic

  Obesity isn’t just a sensitive health issue — it’s dangerous and potentially deadly. Providers and payers are now using connected health tools to drive that point and enhance treatment.  Continue Reading

• Tailoring Telehealth to Manage Back to Work and School Programs

  Telehealth is helping businesses and schools bring people back to the workplace and campus, setting the stage for a more sustainable, long-term connected health strategy.  Continue Reading

• Factoring in Caregivers Adds Value to a Telehealth Program

  Telehealth programs that include the caregiver in the care management process stand a better chance of improving outcomes and quality of life.  Continue Reading

• Providers Plan a Post-Pandemic Future With Telehealth Strategies

  They’ve tried the technology and tested the workloads. Now that telehealth is here to stay, providers are looking closely at what telehealth strategies do and not work for them.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare Looks to Telehealth to Address Physician Burnout, Stress

  In an industry plagued by burnout, hospitals and health systems are using telehealth to give providers virtual access to mental health counselors - and to make their jobs less stressful.  Continue Reading

• The Promise and Potential for Telehealth in Home Health

  Despite reimbursement barriers, home health care providers have long used telehealth and mHealth tools to improve care. Could COVID-19 expand those opportunities?  Continue Reading

• COVID-19 Gives Providers a Blueprint for New Telehealth Strategies

  The lessons learned in applying telehealth and mHealth to a pandemic will help health systems and hospitals shape their connected health strategies far beyond this crisis.  Continue Reading

• School-Based Telehealth Makes Health a Priority for Teachers, Providers

  School-based telehealth programs are connecting educators and providers through technology to ensure every child has a chance at good health and a good education.  Continue Reading

• Ridesharing Services Help mHealth Programs Improve Care Coordination

  Integrating ridesharing services into mHealth programs not only improves patient engagement and outcomes but also reduces costs through better care coordination.  Continue Reading

• How eConsults Can Offer a Virtual Care Connection to Specialists

  Primary care providers can use telemedicine to consult with specialists, creating a virtual care platform that improves care management and coordination and extends one’s network.  Continue Reading

• Integrating a Telehealth Platform into a Diabetes Prevention Program

  Diabetes Prevention Programs, which seek to improve health and wellness for people at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, are using telehealth to improve access and facilitate better outcomes.  Continue Reading

• Remote Patient Monitoring Brings mHealth Care Management Into the Home

  With mHealth tools and platforms, remote patient monitoring programs have the potential to extend care management and coordination outside the doctor's office or hospital and into the patient's home.  Continue Reading

• Using Telehealth, mHealth Technology to Help Seniors Age in Place

  From mHealth apps to telehealth platforms to sensor-embedded smart homes, connected care technology is helping America's growing ranks of seniors stay healthy and active.  Continue Reading

• Store-and-Forward Telemedicine Services Expand Connected Health

  Asynchronous or store-and-forward telemedicine, popular with dermatologists and ophthalmologists, is now showing up in primary care programs. Proponents say it gives them a better chance to use evidence-based best practices.  Continue Reading

• Telemedicine Robots: Out of Science Fiction and Into the Mainstream

  Robots and robotics have been a fixture in healthcare for decades. New telehealth and mHealth tools are giving them a chance to shine.  Continue Reading

• Leveraging Primary Care Telehealth for Convenience and Quality

  Primary care telehealth services are giving health systems small and large new opportunities to improve care for their patients - and to bring in new business.  Continue Reading

• Telepsychiatry Opens a New Window into Behavioral Healthcare

  Thanks to telepsychiatry, the doctor’s couch no longer has to be in the office. And that’s making both providers and patients much more comfortable.  Continue Reading