Alliance for Connected Care

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 [...]

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 [...]