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 [...]
mHealth Intelligence: How Telehealth Will Continue its Evolution Beyond Pandemic Response A survey conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHiME) found about 26 percent of organizations, including acute, ambulatory and post-acute care facilities, reported that more than a quarter of their patients had used telehealth as compared with the 32 percent of organizations that [...]
Kaspersky: Nine out of ten healthcare organizations provide telehealth services, yet almost half face patients’ mistrust towards privacy New global research from Kaspersky reveals that 91% of medical organizations have already implemented telehealth capabilities, with 44% starting to use them after the pandemic. At the same time, 52% of respondents have experienced cases where patients [...]
GoodRx Health: The State of Telehealth, According to Healthcare Providers and Patients GoodRx Research surveyed over 1,000 patients and over 600 providers during August and September 2021 about their telehealth experiences. In the survey, both providers and consumers said that they valued telehealth and planned to use it in the future. Key takeaways: Consumers enjoy [...]
National Association of Community Health Centers: Health Centers Benefit from Pandemic-Era Medicaid Flexibilities As part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act passed last March, states began receiving a 6.2% bump to the federal Medicaid match rate. In exchange for the higher federal funding, states are not allowed to disenroll any beneficiaries from Medicaid during [...]