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. [...]
JAMA Internal Medicine: Telephone-Based Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Optimization in Navajo Nation In this heart failure trial in Navajo Nation, a telephone-based strategy of remote initiation and titration for outpatients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction led to improved rates of guideline-directed medical therapy at 30 days compared with usual care. This low-cost strategy [...]
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 [...]
JMIR Publications: A Novel Digital Health Platform With Health Coaches to Optimize Surgical Patients A digital health platform that combines human health coaches and personalized recovery care plans was able to engage surgery patients in their perioperative journey and reduce their hospital length of stay (LOS). The study examines the efficacy of Pip Care, [...]
Harvard Medical School: For Controlling Blood Pressure, Telemedicine May Beat Clinic Visits Telemedicine visits combined with self-measured blood pressure readings may help people control high blood pressure better than traditional office visits. Researchers reviewed data from 31 trials lasting between six and 12 months that compared telemedicine to clinic visits for managing blood pressure. [...]
Cureus: Telehealth Transformation: A Mixed-Methods Study on Organizational Change Processes and Outcomes in a Private Medical Practice This mixed-methods case study investigated the impacts, costs, barriers, and facilitators associated with implementing telehealth services across a private pediatric clinic system. The research examined the effects of telehealth on provider engagement and financial performance. Results showed [...]
JAMA Network Open: Patient Characteristics and Telemedicine Use in the US, 2022 A study found that 43 percent of people opted for telemedicine (also known as telehealth) in 2022, even when in-person visits were available. Of them, 70 percent chose video visits and 30 percent had audio-only, or phone, visits with their doctors. Video [...]
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: Implementing Pediatric Telemental Health Care has Both Advantages and Challenges Implementing telemental health services in the pediatric primary care setting can help address the growing need for children’s mental health care. However, there are not enough pediatric mental health providers available to address all of the needs of [...]
New England Journal of Medicine: Key Issues as Wearable Digital Health Technologies Enter Clinical Care Wearable digital health technologies (DHTs) offer the potential to affect health care by making behavioral and physiological patterns in daily life outside the clinic visible to patients and medical professionals. The evidentiary basis for the broad clinical effect of [...]
JAMA Network Open: Telehealth Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy Research found that a majority of pregnant people remained engaged in telehealth-enabled opioid use disorder (OUD) care, with most carrying to term. The researchers conducted a cohort study assessing the efficacy of a low-barrier, multistate, telehealth-based addiction treatment program in the US. They [...]