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National Institute on Drug Abuse: Study Finds Telehealth Associated with Increased Likelihood of Receiving Evidence-Based Standard of Care  Researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found [...]

Fierce Healthcare: Moving Beyond Telehealth Fierce Healthcare released a white paper, sponsored by Spectrum Enterprise, on how unified communications can transform health care collaboration for patients and providers. Scalable bandwidth and better communications capabilities can help relieve disconnected communication systems. Leveraging technology that’s intuitive and easy to use can ease the burden on clinicians [...]

Assurance: The Impact & Perceptions of Telemedicine Assurance, an insurance company, conducted a survey which found that 90 percent of respondents would recommend telehealth to someone who hasn't previously tried it. Of potential significance to health care generally was that 62 percent of respondents said availability of telemedicine makes them more likely to seek care they [...]

Center for Connected Health Policy: Fact Sheet on the Proposed Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Physician Fee Schedule The Center for Connected Health Policy, the national telehealth policy resource center, released a fact sheet which summarizes the proposed CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule. Comments are due September 11, 2023.

Blue Shield of California: Advancing Climate Action with Virtual Health Care As climate change increasingly threatens the nation's health care infrastructure and members' health outcomes, the adoption of more virtual care models is needed to build climate resilience and reduce carbon emissions in health care. The white paper found that the use of a hybrid [...]

PR Newswire: HealthSnap and Prisma Health Expand Program  HealthSnap, a virtual care management platform, and Prisma Health, a health care organization in South Carolina, announced the expansion of their existing Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) program following improved provider and patient experience, and clinical outcomes. Originally announced in July 2022, the [...]

JAMA Network Open: Provision of Digital Health Technologies for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment by US Health Care Organizations  More than a third of health systems with accountable care organization (ACO) contracts are using at least one type of technology, including remote patient monitoring and on-demand support tools. The study finds that the providers using those [...]

mHealth Journal: Overview of telehealth in the United States since the COVID-19 public health emergency: a narrative review This narrative review focuses on highlighting telehealth research and evaluation that took place from March 2020 to February 2023 in the outpatient setting of the United States health care system. The research conducted during the COVID-19 PHE [...]

American Medical Association (AMA): How States Can Boost Telehealth With More Flexible Licensure When the COVID-19 pandemic began, temporary waivers of telehealth coverage and payment regulations boomed at the state and federal levels to meet the increased demand for virtual medical care. To keep pace, state and federal licensure requirements also were waived, enabling [...]

JCO Oncology Practice: Patient- and Provider-Level Factors Associated With Telehealth Utilization According to data published in JCO Oncology Practice, incorporation of telehealth visits during the pandemic did not result in redundant care as determined by per-physician patient volume. Results showed the telehealth utilization rate increased from less than 0.01 percent in 2019, prior to the start of [...]