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PR Newswire: Overweight and Obesity Entered the National Top Five Telehealth Diagnostic Categories in February 2025

PR Newswire: Overweight and Obesity Entered the National Top Five Telehealth Diagnostic Categories in February 2025 Overweight and obesity entered the national top five telehealth diagnostic categories in February 2025 in fourth position, according to FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. At the national level, this diagnostic category accounted for 1.9 percent of patients [...]

pbrown2025-05-26T14:54:07-04:00May 14th, 2025|

American Journal of Managed Care: Effect of Remote Patient Monitoring on Stage 2 Hypertension

American Journal of Managed Care: Effect of Remote Patient Monitoring on Stage 2 Hypertension Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is increasingly being utilized in clinical practice to reduce blood pressure in patients with hypertension. RPM depends on home readings by patients electronically transmitted to clinicians and includes automated alerts for excessive abnormal readings. A cohort [...]

pbrown2025-05-26T15:03:52-04:00May 6th, 2025|

NEJM Catalyst: Decarbonizing Health Care: Measuring Carbon Footprint Impact of a National VA Telehealth Program

NEJM Catalyst: Decarbonizing Health Care: Measuring Carbon Footprint Impact of a National VA Telehealth Program Health care systems are increasingly recognizing the environmental harms generated by medical care and are seeking to reduce their carbon footprints. This study examined the Advanced Comprehensive Diabetes Care, an evidence-based telehealth program for diabetes patients in the U.S. [...]

pbrown2025-05-26T14:34:25-04:00April 16th, 2025|

JMIR Publications: Patient and Clinician Perspectives on the Effectiveness of Current Telemedicine Approaches in Endocrinology Care for Type 2 Diabetes

JMIR Publications: Patient and Clinician Perspectives on the Effectiveness of Current Telemedicine Approaches in Endocrinology Care for Type 2 Diabetes This qualitative study aimed to evaluate clinician and patient perspectives on the benefits and limitations of telemedicine care delivery for type 2 diabetes and views on ways to enhance telemedicine effectiveness type 2 diabetes [...]

pbrown2025-05-25T15:06:14-04:00March 11th, 2025|

JAMA Network Open: Cross-State Travel for Cancer Care and Implications for Telehealth Reciprocity

JAMA Network Open: Cross-State Travel for Cancer Care and Implications for Telehealth Reciprocity In this cross-sectional study Medicare beneficiaries with cancer, approximately 7 percent of cancer care was delivered across state lines. Compared with urban-residing patients, isolated rural-residing patients were approximately two times more likely to cross state lines for surgical procedures, three times [...]

pbrown2025-05-25T14:31:08-04:00February 21st, 2025|

FAIR Health: Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker

FAIR Health: Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker In November 2024, acute respiratory diseases and infections increased in percent of telehealth claim lines in the top five telehealth diagnostic categories nationally and in every region. Hypertension rose from fifth to fourth position in the national top five telehealth diagnostic categories in November, replacing developmental disorders, which fell to [...]

pbrown2025-05-25T14:39:05-04:00February 13th, 2025|

Frontiers in Endocrinology: Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Diabetes

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 [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T16:14:32-04:00January 22nd, 2025|

iHealth Labs: Study Shows Active Participation in iHealth’s Unified Care Program Results Improved Health Outcomes for Patients with Stage 2 Hypertension

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 [...]

pbrown2025-05-04T20:26:03-04:00December 4th, 2024|

Discover Medicine: Patient and Family Caregiver Perceptions of Telehealth in Oncology

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 [...]

pbrown2025-05-04T20:29:01-04:00December 3rd, 2024|

JAMA Network: Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

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 [...]

pbrown2025-04-06T20:54:38-04:00September 11th, 2024|

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