Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Behavioral Health Among Older Adults SAMHSA released an infographic report highlighting substance use and mental health indicators among older adults aged 60 or older in the United States. Notably, the report includes telehealth in SAMHSA’s definitions of substance use treatment and mental health treatment. [...]
Harvard Medical School: What Are the Most Popular Video-Based Medical Visits? Researchers analyzed more than 277 million visits within the Veterans Affairs Health Care System from January 2019 to August 2023. Scientists found that video-based visits remain close to the peak pandemic level of about 12 percent, which is a 2,300 percent increase from [...]
Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Improving Cardiovascular Health in Rural United States: Role of Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) Telemedicine enables patients to connect with clinicians without driving to a physical location, an attractive option for rural patients with long travel distances. Telemedicine offers the potential for rural residents to receive specialized care from [...]
Medical University of South Carolina: Telehealth Utilization in Clinical Trials: Facilitators, Barriers, and Future Directions Telehealth implementation in clinical trials is not as well developed as compared to telehealth utilization in other areas of medical care. This study explored factors that foster and hinder the effective use of telehealth in clinical trials and how [...]
Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science: Transitioning to Telehealth to Treat Concurrent Disorders: Provider and Patient Perspectives During the COVID-19 Pandemic This study examined the use of telehealth within concurrent disorder populations through the examination of both clinicians and patients accessing treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Commonly reported benefits by patients included increased accessibility to [...]
FAIR Health: Share of Patients with Mental Health Diagnoses Rose 40 Percent Nationally from 2019 to 2023 FAIR Health released a white paper, which found that nationally, the share of patients with mental health diagnoses rose 39.8 percent, from 13.5 percent of patients who received medical services in 2019 to 18.9 percent in 2023. [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel in response to its May 2024 meeting agenda, which includes Tab 38 – Remote Monitoring. The Alliance appreciates the consideration of stakeholder feedback into the revised proposal to ensure coding for remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote [...]
Applied Clinical Trials: The Future Fit of Wearables for Patient-Centric Clinical Trials Wearable technology integration holds immense value in clinical trials. By incorporating these devices into clinical trial protocols, researchers can gather comprehensive data while minimizing participant burden. The technology allows for extended monitoring of patients’ health parameters, such as vital signs, medication adherence, [...]
Clinical Diabetes: A Qualitative Study of Adapting Telehealth Systems for Specialty Diabetes Care Across Four California Medical Centers Telehealth continues to play an important role in specialty diabetes care, but there are variations in how this care is delivered. This article reports on clinician and clinic staff perspectives on providing specialty telehealth diabetes care [...]
Health Affairs: Telemedicine’s Impact on Use, Spending, And Quality To inform the ongoing debate about whether to continue payment for telemedicine visits, researchers from Harvard University, and RAND Corporation conducted a study on telemedicine use across health systems with utilization, spending, and quality. In 2021–22, relative to those in the lowest quartile, Medicare patients [...]