Studies

mHealth Intelligence: A Project ECHO Telementoring Program Cut Hospital Admissions Among Diabetics by 44 Percent According to a recent study published in Medical Care, a Project ECHO telementoring program that involved primary care providers resulted in a decrease in hospitalizations among Medicaid patients with diabetes. The study evaluated one of the Project ECHO programs operated by Rutgers Robert Wood [...]

AHIP: Telehealth Coverage During the COVID-19 Pandemic AHIP published a report demonstrating the extent to which health insurance providers modified the benefit design of their Consumer-Directed Health Plan (CDHP) product offerings to cover more telehealth services pre-deductible, how those services were made available, and for which medical specialties the services were most utilized. Nearly all [...]

mHealth Intelligence: Telehealth Supported Opioid Use Disorder Treatment at Safety-Net Clinic According to a recent study published in the Journal of Rural Mental Health, as health care became increasingly virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth helped safety-net facilities provide opioid use disorder (OUD) patients, particularly those involved in buprenorphine treatment programs, high levels of care. The study took place [...]

ONC Live: Analysis Reveals Racial Disparities in Telemedicine Use During COVID-19 Pandemic Among Patients with Hematologic Malignancies Data from a retrospective observational study revealed that White patients with hematologic malignancies in the United States had significantly higher uptake of telemedicine compared to Black patients, reflecting disparities that require further exploration. From March 2020 to February [...]

mHealth Intelligence: Telehealth Supported Care for Community Mental Health Centers A recent study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health found that telehealth supported care continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic for community mental health center patients with serious mental illness. Researchers found that female patients between 18 and 34 with less severe diagnoses, such as anxiety [...]

mHealth Intelligence: Telehealth Cut Missed Appointments Among Kids With TB by 11 Percent A study published in the Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease journal found the implementation of telehealth had a significant impact on missed follow-up appointments among pediatric patients with tuberculosis infections (TBI), reducing the rate of missed visits by 11.1 percent. Before implementing telehealth, 16.9 percent of [...]

Drug Topics: Telehealth Services Evaluated Vs Standard Care for Diabetes A study presented at the American Pharmacist Association Conference found that the telehealth diabetes management program (telephone or video visits) may be a successful method to improve diabetes management by 1) lowering A1c and 2) improving immunization rates. Researchers emphasized that having a comprehensive telehealth [...]

Physician’s Weekly: Telehealth May Increase Access to Substance Use Treatment During COVID-19 A recent study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, which examined patient characteristics associated with the use of phone versus video-enabled tele-medication for opioid use disorders (tele-MOUD) during COVID-19, found that most tele-MOUD encounters completed by patients (79.62 percent) were video visits. Of these encounters, [...]