Monthly Archives: March 2024

Cureus: Telehealth Transformation: A Mixed-Methods Study on Organizational Change Processes and Outcomes in a Private Medical Practice This mixed-methods case study investigated the impacts, costs, barriers, and facilitators associated with implementing telehealth services across a private pediatric clinic system. The research examined the effects of telehealth on provider engagement and financial performance. Results showed [...]

JAMA Network Open: Patient Characteristics and Telemedicine Use in the US, 2022 A study found that 43 percent of people opted for telemedicine (also known as telehealth) in 2022, even when in-person visits were available. Of them, 70 percent chose video visits and 30 percent had audio-only, or phone, visits with their doctors. Video [...]

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: Implementing Pediatric Telemental Health Care has Both Advantages and Challenges Implementing telemental health services in the pediatric primary care setting can help address the growing need for children’s mental health care. However, there are not enough pediatric mental health providers available to address all of the needs of [...]

New England Journal of Medicine: Key Issues as Wearable Digital Health Technologies Enter Clinical Care Wearable digital health technologies (DHTs) offer the potential to affect health care by making behavioral and physiological patterns in daily life outside the clinic visible to patients and medical professionals. The evidentiary basis for the broad clinical effect of [...]

JAMA Network Open: Telehealth Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy Research found that a majority of pregnant people remained engaged in telehealth-enabled opioid use disorder (OUD) care, with most carrying to term. The researchers conducted a cohort study assessing the efficacy of a low-barrier, multistate, telehealth-based addiction treatment program in the US. They [...]

JAMA Network Open: Antibiotic Receipt for Pediatric Telemedicine Visits With Primary Care vs Direct-to-Consumer Vendors Research from the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) found that telemedicine visits conducted for children with primary care providers (PCPs) are associated with fewer antibiotic prescriptions than telemedicine visits with virtual-only direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies. The findings highlight the importance of supporting integrated telemedicine [...]

KeyCare: Almost 70 Percent of Medicare Patients Comfortable Conducting Annual Wellness Visits by Telehealth Among Medicare enrollees who previously have had a telehealth visit, 69 percent report that they would be comfortable doing annual wellness visits (AWVs) via telehealth from home. The survey found that the most-often cited benefits of telehealth annual wellness visits [...]