National Academy for State Health Policy: States’ Use of Telehealth to Support Children with Chronic and Complex Needs Approximately 20 percent of all children and youth in the U.S. have chronic and complex needs, including physical, mental, and behavioral health conditions. Telehealth has been a critical tool to improving access to care for children [...]
npj | Digital Medicine: Telehealth Virtual Reality Intervention Reduces Chronic Pain in a Randomized Crossover Study Chronic pain imposes a significant burden on both the individual and society, making it essential to consider the cost-effectiveness of digital therapeutics in comparison to the annual expenditures associated with chronic pain disorders. Pharmacological treatments make up $16.4 [...]
Frontiers in Endocrinology: Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Diabetes The prevalence of diabetes continues to rise in the United States along with a shortage of endocrinologists. One proposed solution to this challenge is to deliver more specialty health care services through remote patient monitoring (RPM). In an RPM program for diabetes care at the [...]
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Barriers to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis in Adults Through an environmental scan and key informant interviews with clinical experts and people with lived experience of being diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, this report explored the process by which ADHD is diagnosed in adults, barriers and facilitators to diagnosis, [...]
Frontiers: Addressing Barriers to Equitable Telehealth for Older Adults Aging is associated with the development of chronic conditions and multimorbidity, which led older adults to incur, on average, $5,277 in medical expenses in 2022. Telehealth is a particularly useful tool in helping manage many chronic conditions, particularly when it can be delivered at lower [...]
iHealth Labs: Study Shows Active Participation in iHealth’s Unified Care Program Results Improved Health Outcomes for Patients with Stage 2 Hypertension iHealth Labs, a digital health management provider, presented a study at the American Heart Association which examined the effectiveness of a digital health program to improve blood pressure (BP) in patients with stage [...]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Telemedicine Use Among Adults With and Without Diagnosed Prediabetes or Diabetes The CDC released a study which found that, telemedicine was used by approximately half of US adults diagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes in 2021, with a noticeable decrease in use in 2022. In 2021 and 2022, telemedicine [...]
Peterson Health Technology Institute: Digital Hypertension Management Solutions PHTI released a health technology assessment on digital hypertension management solutions. The report assessed the clinical effectiveness of these digital hypertension management solutions compared with usual care across 13 different outcome measures, including primary outcomes that focus on reducing systolic blood pressure (SBP) and increasing the [...]
Frontiers: The Effect of Telemedicine Employing Telemonitoring Instruments on Readmissions of Patients with Heart Failure and/or COPD Hospital readmissions pose a challenge for modern healthcare systems. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of telemedicine incorporating telemonitoring of patients' vital signs in decreasing readmissions with a focus on a specific patient population particularly prone [...]
Clinical Diabetes: A Qualitative Study of Adapting Telehealth Systems for Specialty Diabetes Care Across Four California Medical Centers Telehealth continues to play an important role in specialty diabetes care, but there are variations in how this care is delivered. Researchers interviewed clinicians and staff who provide diabetes care through telehealth across four University of [...]