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 [...]
Doximity: Health Care Providers and Patients Trust and Plan to Continue Telehealth Use While providing insight into the factors that affect telehealth use, a report from Doximity indicated that physicians and patients perceive telehealth positively, and most believe that it often contributes to positive outcomes. Physician adoption highlights: The majority of physicians surveyed (61 [...]
University of Alabama at Birmingham: Telehealth's Growth During the Pandemic Expanded Mental Health Accessibility A study published in the Journal of Counseling & Development found that overall mental health care accessibility took a step forward during the pandemic due to telehealth. The study aimed to understand whether or not patients seeking mental health care services, like therapy or [...]
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. [...]
mHealth Intelligence: Telehealth Perceptions Vary Among Black Veterans with Chronic Pain Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the US Department of Veterans Affairs described telehealth perceptions among Black Veterans with chronic pain, which included both positive and negative experiences and views. Through qualitative interviews, researchers found that a few patients identified positive experiences with telehealth early in [...]