Minnesota Department of Health: Study of Telehealth Expansion and Payment Parity The Minnesota Department of Health submitted a report to the state legislature and found that telehealth expanded access to health care without appearing to compromise health care quality or patient satisfaction. The Department makes several recommendations, including continuing payment parity, requiring health plans [...]
The Permanente Journal: The Impact of Digital Health Solutions on Bridging the Health Care Gap in Rural Areas Digital health tools can improve health care access and outcomes for individuals with limited access to health care, particularly those residing in rural areas. This review highlighted advantages and barriers of digital health interventions in rural [...]
Harvard Review of Psychiatry: Finding Our Lanes: A Roadmap for Collaboration Between Academic Medical Centers and Behavioral Telehealth Companies Outpatient mental health care in the United States is delivered by an uncoordinated patchwork of public and private entities that struggle to effectively differentiate the care they provide. The authors review the current landscape of [...]
JU Open Plus: Telehealth in Urology Beyond COVID-19 Implementation of telehealth accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we move toward the post-COVID-19 era, clinical practice has demonstrated a need for updated policies and quality improvement to solidify the role of telehealth in the urology care setting. The American Urological Association (AUA) Workforce Workgroup and [...]
Elevance Health: Virtual Health Care is Convenient, Accessible, and Recommended by Friends and Family A survey commissioned by Elevance Health found that virtual care is seen as convenient and accessible, especially for those unable to visit a doctor in person for many reasons including lack of transportation or childcare, working several jobs, or a [...]
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH): MDH Study Shows Potential for More Accessible Health Care Through Telehealth A study by MDH highlights the potential for telehealth to make care more accessible while providing similar levels of service to traditional, in-person ways of delivering care. The report, which focus on Minnesotans with private health insurance coverage, [...]
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 [...]
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Updated National Survey Trends in Telehealth Utilization and Modality This report updates prior findings on national trends of telehealth use through an analysis using the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey data from April 2021 through August 2022. Compared to earlier periods in the pandemic, [...]
Annals of Internal Medicine: Performance Measures for Physicians Providing Clinical Care Using Telemedicine: A Position Paper From the American College of Physicians The American College of Physicians (ACP) published a policy paper which details new recommendations to ensure that measures developed to gauge telemedicine services are evidence-based, methodologically sound and clinically meaningful. The focus of this paper [...]
JAMA Network: Changes in In-Person, Audio-Only, and Video Visits in California’s Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), 2019-2022 A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that audio-only telehealth continued to be used at higher rates than video visits in safety net clinics in California. Prior to March 2020, FQHCs rarely received reimbursement for [...]