Alliance for Connected Care

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 [...]

FAIR Health: Mental Health Conditions Account for 66 Percent of Telehealth Claim Lines Nationally in January 2024 Telehealth accounted for 4.8 percent of all medical claim lines nationally. Telehealth utilization varied by region, from a high of 6.3 percent of all medical claim lines in the West to a low of 3.6 percent in [...]

Government Accountability Office (GAO): Telehealth Usage by the Coast Guard GAO released a report on telehealth usage by the Coast Guard. The report describes how the Coast Guard uses telehealth to provide medical care to its active-duty personnel, as well as describes telehealth benefits and challenges identified by Coast Guard officials and documents. [...]

University of Buffalo: Telemedicine Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Successful in those with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) People with opioid use disorder who have hepatitis C virus (HCV) were twice as likely to be successfully treated and cured from HCV if they received facilitated telemedicine treatment at their opioid treatment program (OTPs) than [...]