Medical Economics: How primary care used telehealth to keep treating patients during the pandemic According to a Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) report, primary care physicians quickly pivoted to telehealth at the beginning of the pandemic. In April 2020, the number of clinicians reporting that their patients were unable to access telehealth services due to lack of [...]
AARP: Interest in Telehealth Holds Steady Two Years Into Pandemic According to a recent AARP report, nearly one in three adults (32 percent) age 50 or older are either extremely or very interested in telehealth services, for themselves or a loved one. The survey found greater interest in telehealth services among nonwhite populations, including 45 percent [...]
Yale School of Medicine: Telehealth Improves Access to Cochlear Implants—a Boon for Those with Severe Hearing Loss The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved remote programming for cochlear implants in 2017, but there were various governmental restrictions and regulations that made it difficult to implement. In response to COVID-19, however, the federal government rapidly removed such [...]
Penn Medicine News: Racial Gap in Completed Doctor Visits Disappeared in 2020 as Telemedicine Adopted A Penn Medicine study found that as COVID-19 necessitated the wider adoption of telemedicine, the rate of completed primary care visits for Black patients rose to the same level of non-Black patients. The study showed that completed primary care visits rose from [...]
Federation of State Medical Boards: The Appropriate Use of Telemedicine Technologies in the Practice of Medicine The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) updated its guidance to state medical boards for regulating the use of telemedicine technologies in the practice of medicine, while raising awareness for licensees and patients alike as to the appropriate standards of care [...]
It has already been a momentous year for telehealth. This link and the below PDF provide key highlights of Alliance for Connected Care accomplishments thus far in 2022. We look forward to further successes later this year.
Kaiser Family Foundation: PrEP Access in the United States: The Role of Telehealth Telehealth to provide pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and associated services (“tele-PrEP”) has been a trend that began before the COVID-19 pandemic. This issue brief provided an overview of the tele-PrEP landscape, including how PrEP services (e.g., initial consults, lab work, prescribing, and ongoing [...]
Healthcare IT News: Telehealth can play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center built a dashboard to estimate the environmental impact of the medical facility's telehealth offerings. Researchers found that telehealth appointments saved 2.2 million gallons of gas for patients since the start of the pandemic. Since the onset of [...]