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 [...]
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 [...]
Discover Medicine: Patient and Family Caregiver Perceptions of Telehealth in Oncology With the onset of the COVID pandemic the use of electronic tools, including telehealth, increased out of necessity. The goal of this scoping review was to identify perceptions of benefits and limitations of the use of telehealth among cancer patients and their family [...]
JAMA Network: Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer In this randomized comparative effectiveness trial, patient-reported quality-of-life scores were equivalent between groups. The delivery of early palliative care virtually vs in person demonstrated equivalent effects on quality of life in patients with advanced on–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), underscoring [...]
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment: In-Person Opioid Use Disorder Assessment Unnecessary for Treatment-Seeking Patients At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies permitted telehealth initiation of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) without in-person assessment. This prospective observational longitudinal cohort study found that participants with OUD had low rates of [...]
JMIR mHealth: A Dual-Modality Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program for Adults with Cardiovascular Disease: Single-Arm Remote Clinical Trial Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a safe and effective intervention for individuals with cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the majority of eligible patients do not complete CR. Growing evidence suggests that home-based CR (HBCR) programs are comparable in effectiveness [...]
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment: Comparison of 30-Day Retention in Treatment Among Patients Referred to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment from Emergency Department and Telemedicine Settings Telemedicine evaluations are feasible for people with opioid use disorder. People referred to an addiction treatment clinic following a telemedicine evaluation were more likely to show up [...]
JNCI Monographs: University of Pennsylvania Telehealth Research Center of Excellence Drawing from insights from communication science and behavioral economics, the University of Pennsylvania Telehealth Research Center of Excellence (Penn TRACE) is designing and testing telehealth strategies with the potential to transform access to care, care quality, outcomes, health equity, and health-care efficiency across the [...]
JMIR Publications: A Novel Digital Health Platform With Health Coaches to Optimize Surgical Patients A digital health platform that combines human health coaches and personalized recovery care plans was able to engage surgery patients in their perioperative journey and reduce their hospital length of stay (LOS). The study examines the efficacy of Pip Care, [...]
Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network: A Report on Patient Experience of Care In this retrospective study, researchers found that cancer patients who use telemedicine report better experiences than cancer patients treated in person. Researchers evaluated patients with solid tumors or hematologic malignancies who were treated at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. [...]