PYMTS: Digital, Flexible Payment Plans Key to Expanded Behavioral Healthcare Access A recent PYMTS survey found that three in five patients who interacted with a behavioral health practitioner in the last year did so digitally — a share that significantly outpaces the shares of patients digitally accessing any other type of health care. Financing remains a [...]
McKnights Long-Term Care News: Telemedicine helped nursing home residents avoid ER visits, research finds Findings published in the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine found that skilled nursing facilities (SNF) were able to limit emergency room visits after implementing a more robust telemedicine program. The study was part of an effort to determine if telemedicine services could provide [...]
Becker’s Hospital Review: Patient attitudes about telehealth care quality jump 15 percent in one year, study shows According to a Doximity “State of Telemedicine” report, the share of patients who believe telehealth provides the same or better quality of care compared with in-person visits is increasing. The study found that the share of patients who reported [...]
Forbes: Telehealth: The Good, The Bad And The Could Be Better A recent survey conducted by DocASAP found that 93 percent of physicians expect to continue to use telehealth solutions in the future. Nearly 70 percent of providers labeled telehealth as “convenient” and 90 percent identified convenience as the leading benefit of telehealth for patients. However, providers [...]
HIT Consultant: With No End in Sight for COVID, Why Is Congress Not Acting on Telehealth? A survey conducted by the Digestive Health Physicians Association found that more than 80 percent of patients and 90 percent of physicians surveyed were either satisfied or highly satisfied with telehealth. Research suggests that telehealth promotes the triple aim of improving [...]
mHealth Intelligence: 77 percent of Infectious Disease Patients Open to Telehealth According to a survey conducted by Washington University, more than three quarters of infectious disease (ID) patients said they would try telehealth after being told the time and money they spend on in-person care. The researchers also noticed a strong correlation between time and money, and [...]
CirrusMD: 7 statistics on how women have used telehealth during the pandemic According to a survey conducted by CirrusMD, women were more inclined to use telemedicine than men during the pandemic. Additionally, most women found telemedicine care comparable to in-person appointments, and would use telehealth in between routine appointments. The survey demonstrates that telemedicine is [...]
PYMNTS: Digital Healthcare Use Surged 2.9% in December 2021 on Fears of Omicron According to a survey conducted by PYMNTS, 2.1 million more consumers accessed health care products and services online in December 2021 than they did just one month earlier. Additionally, 2.8 million fewer consumers attended in-person medical appointments in December than in November. [...]
mHealth Intelligence: Telehealth Use Among Medical Groups Peaked in First Half of 2020 According to the 2021 Medical Group Telehealth Survey by AMGA, telehealth utilization peaked in the first half of 2020 and decreased as the year came to a close, with providers predicting that virtual care use would continue to decline in upcoming years. Telehealth utilization [...]
Forbes: As Telehealth Rises Due To Covid-19, Doctors’ Influence Wanes, New Survey Shows According to a survey conducted by Oliver Wyman, telehealth is now a common feature of many Americans’ health care experience. More than one-third of survey respondents said they’d had a video visit with a health care provider at some point during the pandemic—triple the [...]