Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Nursing Workforce Dashboard According to the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, 57 percent of nurses reported using telehealth in 2022, up from 50 percent in 2018. HRSA also maintains an interactive data dashboard that compares 2018 and 2022 survey responses in key areas, including nurse employment, work [...]
KeyCare: Almost 70 Percent of Medicare Patients Comfortable Conducting Annual Wellness Visits by Telehealth Among Medicare enrollees who previously have had a telehealth visit, 69 percent report that they would be comfortable doing annual wellness visits (AWVs) via telehealth from home. The survey found that the most-often cited benefits of telehealth annual wellness visits [...]
Doximity: Health Care Providers and Patients Trust and Plan to Continue Telehealth Use While providing insight into the factors that affect telehealth use, a report from Doximity indicated that physicians and patients perceive telehealth positively, and most believe that it often contributes to positive outcomes. Physician adoption highlights: The majority of physicians surveyed (61 [...]
Virginia Telehealth Network: 2023 Benchmarking Telehealth Usage in Virginia Survey As part of ongoing efforts to monitor the impact of telehealth on Virginia’s patients and providers, the Virginia Telehealth Network (VTN) conducts an annual “Benchmarking Telehealth Usage in Virginia” survey of actively practicing licensed providers across the Commonwealth. The survey found that 87 percent [...]
Association of Community Cancer Centers: Digital Tools in Cancer Care The Association of Community Cancer Centers conducted a survey, which found that providers, patients, and caregivers were willing to utilize digital, remote patient-monitoring (RPM) tools to report symptoms throughout anti-cancer treatments. Key survey results found more than half (60 percent) of providers who implemented an RPM program said [...]
mHealth Intelligence: Telehealth Perceptions Vary Among Black Veterans with Chronic Pain Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the US Department of Veterans Affairs described telehealth perceptions among Black Veterans with chronic pain, which included both positive and negative experiences and views. Through qualitative interviews, researchers found that a few patients identified positive experiences with telehealth early in [...]
California Health Care Foundation: Telehealth Experiences and Preferences Among Californians with Low Incomes The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) engaged NORC at the University of Chicago to recruit and interview Californians with low incomes who reflect the diversity of the state. Although interviewees report different levels of comfort, satisfaction, and future interest in [...]
Oncology Nursing News: Older Patients Are Comfortable With Telehealth and Prefer It as an Option A survey by Independa, a health care technology company, found that adults older than 70 years had a high comfort level with telehealth and preferred having it as an option. Of those surveyed, 93 percent of adults older than 70 [...]
mHealth Intelligence: Preference for Future Telehealth Use Does Not Exceed That of In-Person Care Research published in the Practice of Medicine described that although telehealth gained a high level of approval and application throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, most users prefer to return to in-person care in the future, largely due to a lack [...]
Key Care: Consumers Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visits While Traveling A survey sponsored by KeyCare found that nearly seven in 10 (68 percent) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their regular physicians or affiliated members of their physicians' [...]