Discover Medicine: Patient and Family Caregiver Perceptions of Telehealth in Oncology With the onset of the COVID pandemic the use of electronic tools, including telehealth, increased out of necessity. The goal of this scoping review was to identify perceptions of benefits and limitations of the use of telehealth among cancer patients and their family [...]
Telemedicine and e-Health: The Association Between Telehealth Use During Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder and Clinical Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) represent a high-risk population due to increased rates of adverse health outcomes and death. In this retrospective cohort study within the Veterans Health Administration, telehealth use [...]
JAMA Health Forum: Health Care Utilization With Telemedicine and In-Person Visits in Pediatric Primary Care In this cohort study, compared with in-person visits, telemedicine visits were associated with less prescribing and ordering, modestly higher rates of in-person visits, and slightly more ED visits. The findings suggest that primary health care delivery that uses telemedicine [...]
Center for Connected Health Policy: State Telehealth Laws and Medicaid Program Policies
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Telemedicine Use Among Adults With and Without Diagnosed Prediabetes or Diabetes The CDC released a study which found that, telemedicine was used by approximately half of US adults diagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes in 2021, with a noticeable decrease in use in 2022. In 2021 and 2022, telemedicine [...]
JAMA Network Open: Primary Care Practice Telehealth Use and Low-Value Care Services In this cohort study of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who received care from primary care practices in Michigan, some low-value care services (i.e., cervical cancer screening among women older than 65 years and low-value thyroid testing) were lower among practices with high telehealth [...]
JAMA Network Open: Building the Evidence on Mental Telehealth Care and Health Outcomes An ongoing challenge in observational studies comparing mental health outcomes for in-person vs telehealth care involves ensuring that the patients who use different modalities are similar with respect to both observed and unobserved characteristics. In this commentary piece, Jean Yoon, PhD, MHS, [...]
Peterson Health Technology Institute: Digital Hypertension Management Solutions PHTI released a health technology assessment on digital hypertension management solutions. The report assessed the clinical effectiveness of these digital hypertension management solutions compared with usual care across 13 different outcome measures, including primary outcomes that focus on reducing systolic blood pressure (SBP) and increasing the [...]
Journal of Medical Internet Research: Statistical Analysis of Telehealth Use and Pre- and Postpandemic Insurance Coverage in Selected Health Care Specialties This study analyzed telehealth use across specialties in Arkansas before and after the pandemic (2017-2022) using data from electronic medical records from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center. The study [...]
BMC Primary Care: Primary Care Patients at Risk for Suicide in Mental Health Treatment This study identified barriers and facilitators to engagement in mental health services among primary care patients at risk for suicide to inform the development of strategies to increase engagement. The most identified barriers to mental health care engagement were waitlists, [...]