NTT Data: Many People Still Unaware of Telehealth's Efficacy According to a survey from NTT Data Services, it is more likely that more patients will gravitate toward telehealth visits for things like filling prescriptions, addressing cold and flu symptoms, annual check-ups that don’t require in-office testing, and other non-life-threatening needs. Survey respondents also [...]
AccentCare: Improving Access and Timely Care for Vulnerable Patients Referred to Home Health via Telehealth Physician Support AccentCare and Sound Physicians partnered to develop a scalable, evidence-based program that leveraged the COVID-19 PHE telehealth waivers to speed access to Home Health services for eligible patients. The AccentCare-Sound Transition Program aimed to facilitate telehealth patient [...]
Rock Health: Consumer Adoption of Digital Health in 2022 Rock Health, in collaboration with Stanford Center of Digital Health, released the 2022 Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey. The survey found that telemedicine reached the 80 percent adoption mark overall, becoming the preferred channel for prescription care and minor illness. In addition, audio-only and [...]
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Usual Source of Care and Telemedicine Use Data CMS announced the public availability of the MCBS data on the usual source of care and telemedicine use in Spring 2021. The estimates are based on data from the third MCBS COVID-19 Rapid [...]
Trilliant Health: Less Than One Percent of All Telehealth Visits Are for Oncology Care Recent market research shows that less than one percent of all telehealth visits between Q1 2020 and Q2 2022 were for oncology-related care. Of these oncology-related telehealth visits, 73 percent were evaluation and management (E&M) for ongoing cancer care. Conducted by [...]
McKinsey & Co: Preparing Clinicians for the New Era of Telehealth According to a McKinsey & Co report, telehealth services have quickly become a popular and safe alternative to in-person appointments, with 46 percent of consumers using telehealth by May 2020 to replace canceled health care visits—up from 11 percent in 2019. In [...]
Plos One: Pre-Pandemic Geographic Access to Hospital-Based Telehealth for Cancer Care in the United States This report found that although telehealth is widely available throughout the United States, millions of Americans do not have access to telehealth oncology services. Study authors noted that previous research has shown people living in rural areas tend to have [...]
Center for Connected Health Policy: A Report from the Fall 2022 State Telehealth Policy Webinar In the fall of 2022, the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) held two webinars on telehealth across state lines and what telehealth policy landscape may look like in a post-public health emergency (PHE) environment. The report summarizes [...]
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute: Equity Gaps in Telehealth Use to Manage Chronic Conditions During COVID-19 A study by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute found that since COVID-19 emerged, language barriers have prevented Latino and Asian patients in Los Angeles from making full use of telehealth services. The research also revealed that [...]
Stroke: Telehealth Trials to Address Health Equity in Stroke Survivors A review, by researchers from UTHealth Houston, found various benefits of telehealth for a range of stroke complications. The researchers found that telehealth addresses barriers related to mobility challenges and special equipment needed to access clinic spaces by removing the need for transportation altogether. [...]