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 [...]
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National Institute on Drug Abuse: Study Finds Telehealth Associated with Increased Likelihood of Receiving Evidence-Based Standard of Care Researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found [...]
Fierce Healthcare: Moving Beyond Telehealth Fierce Healthcare released a white paper, sponsored by Spectrum Enterprise, on how unified communications can transform health care collaboration for patients and providers. Scalable bandwidth and better communications capabilities can help relieve disconnected communication systems. Leveraging technology that’s intuitive and easy to use can ease the burden on clinicians [...]
Assurance: The Impact & Perceptions of Telemedicine Assurance, an insurance company, conducted a survey which found that 90 percent of respondents would recommend telehealth to someone who hasn't previously tried it. Of potential significance to health care generally was that 62 percent of respondents said availability of telemedicine makes them more likely to seek care they [...]
Center for Connected Health Policy: Fact Sheet on the Proposed Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Physician Fee Schedule The Center for Connected Health Policy, the national telehealth policy resource center, released a fact sheet which summarizes the proposed CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule. Comments are due September 11, 2023.
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