Health Affairs: Use of And Willingness To Use Video Telehealth Through The COVID-19 Pandemic According to a report published in Health Affairs, during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increase in willingness to use video telehealth. Researchers found that from February 2019 to March 2021, there was an overall increase in willingness to use [...]
Institute for Medicaid Innovation: Survey: Medicaid Health Plans Share Successes During COVID-19 Response, Identify Challenges in Data Collection and Sharing The Institute for Medicaid Innovation (IMI) release the results from its 2022 Medicaid managed care organization survey, which offered insights and could help support efforts led by Medicaid health plans and state agencies [...]
Hypertension: Changes in Blood Pressure Outcomes Among Hypertensive Individuals During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Time Series Analysis in Three US Health Care Organizations A study published in the Alliance for Connected Care’s advisory board member American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension found that the availability of telemedicine may have helped mitigate the rise in blood pressure [...]
Prescribe FIT: Prescribe FIT Releases Comprehensive Report on the State of Remote Patient Monitoring Technology for Orthopedics Today A white paper from Prescribe FIT outlines the current landscape for remote monitoring, analyzing data on its ubiquity and efficacy. The white paper references a review of several studies that demonstrate remote monitoring to produce clinically [...]
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine: The Impact of Telehealth on Primary Care Physician Panel Sizes: A Modeling Study This study explores the potential for telehealth to significantly increase physician capacity by reducing nonvalue adding activities and patient no-shows. The study found that tele-visits reduce the nonvalue-added time physicians spend with [...]
JAMA Network Open: Association Between In-Person vs Telehealth Follow-up and Rates of Repeated Hospital Visits Among Patients Seen in the Emergency Department This cohort study evaluates whether the rates of emergency department (ED) return visits and hospitalization differ between patients who obtain in-person vs telehealth encounters for post-ED follow-up care. Telehealth follow-up visits [...]
Cureus: Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction and Cost: A Comparative Study in the COVID-19 Era Telemedicine has the potential to enhance access to health care services across distances, which was of great value during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, concerns about user satisfaction in comparison to face-to-face (FTF) interaction remain inadequately addressed. This study demonstrated that [...]
Hypertension: Comparing Pharmacist-Led Telehealth Care and Clinic-Based Care for Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure: The Hyperlink 3 Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Trial A study published in the Alliance for Connected Care advisory board member American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension found that telehealth care by pharmacists is an effective alternative to clinic-based care for managing high blood pressure. For the [...]
Cureus: Management of Obese Type 1 Diabetes Through Telemedicine During COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: A Case Report This report shows that lifestyle modification through telemedicine can immensely help in managing uncontrolled Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) with associated morbid obesity in lockdown situations, with the help of the diabetes educator. In this case, the [...]
Trilliant Health: 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy The 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy analysis found telehealth volumes peaked at 73.7 million visits in the second quarter of 2020, while visits during the first quarter this year reached 46.4 million. About 80 percent of patients had between one and four visits last [...]