Yearly Archives: 2023

Health Affairs: A Study Of Patients’ Experiences Selecting Telehealth Versus In-Person Care  Approximately one-third of behavioral health patients seeking therapy or medication visits said their clinicians did not offer both telehealth and in-person care. The study conducted by RAND Corporation found that 45 percent of behavioral health patients did not believe their clinicians considered their preferences for [...]

BMC Medicine: Telehealth in Antenatal Care  This narrative review examines the impact of telehealth on obstetric care. The review found that adoption of telehealth technologies may improve the antenatal care experience for women and reduce health care expenditure without adversely impacting health outcomes for the mother or baby. Health economic studies also suggest telehealth has [...]

JAMA Health Forum: Telehealth and In-Person Mental Health Service Utilization and Spending, 2019 to 2022  Trends in mental health service utilization and spending before expiration of the public health emergency (PHE) in May 2023 are largely undocumented. Researchers assessed monthly telehealth vs in-person utilization and spending rates for mental health services among commercially insured US adults between [...]

Software Advice: 95 Percent of Patients Say Telehealth is Easiest Way to Access Health Services Software Advice, an information services company, conducted a survey in which 95 percent of participating patients reported telehealth to be the easiest option when seeking a diagnosis. Additionally, 67 percent of the respondents rated the process as "extremely easy." Software [...]

JAMA Network Open: Telemedicine Visits in US Skilled Nursing Facilities  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. Researchers found that, compared with 2018-2019, SNFs with high telehealth use in 2020-2021 provided about 20.2 percent more psychiatry visits per resident [...]

PR Newswire: Remote Patient Monitoring Adoption Increased over 300 Percent in Two Years Vivalink, a digital health care solutions provider, announced results of a survey on the state of RPM adoption and the rapid rise of acute RPM and hospital-at-home programs. The survey found that eighty one percent of clinicians are currently using RPM on [...]

National Governors Association (NGA): Implementing Best Practices Across The Continuum Of Care To Prevent Overdose The NGA released a Roadmap for Governors, which contains recommendations that represent evidence-based and promising actions states and territories can consider as they work to strengthen the Continuum of Care for people at risk for overdose, including those with substance use disorder [...]

Medical Economics: The State of Telemedicine Today Telemedicine remains an important vehicle for providing many kinds of care. To gauge the current state of telemedicine, Doximity surveyed 1,200 physicians and 2,400 adult patients about their reasons for using telemedicine and its impact on care quality and access. Notably, the survey found a 37 percent increase [...]