FAIR Health: Telehealth Utilization Decreased Nationally and in Every US Census Region in September According to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, telehealth utilization decreased nationally and in every US census region in September 2024. Nationally, telehealth claim lines dropped from 4.96 percent of medical claim lines in August to 4.80 percent in September, a [...]
JAMA Network: Racial and Ethnic and Rural Variations in the Use of Hybrid Prenatal Care in the US This study found that while the use of hybrid prenatal care (i.e., telehealth and in-person visits) increased among Black and Hispanic groups, rural communities still lag behind urban populations in uptake. Nationally, Black and Hispanic individuals [...]
ASPE: Trends in In-Person and Telehealth-Involved Controlled Medication Initiations Among Adults with Private Insurance This data brief presents trends in the initiations of selected, frequently prescribed controlled medications among individuals with private health insurance coverage. Results show that the majority of privately insured individuals received their initial controlled medication prescriptions without telehealth involvement, throughout [...]
JAMA Psychiatry: Trends in Outpatient Psychotherapy Among Adults in the US In this cross-sectional study, significant psychotherapy increases occurred for adults with mild or moderate but not serious distress, younger but not older adults, females but not males, college educated but not less than college educated adults, individuals with higher but not lower family [...]
Telemedicine and e-Health: The Association Between Telehealth Use During Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder and Clinical Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) represent a high-risk population due to increased rates of adverse health outcomes and death. In this retrospective cohort study within the Veterans Health Administration, telehealth use [...]
JAMA Health Forum: Health Care Utilization With Telemedicine and In-Person Visits in Pediatric Primary Care In this cohort study, compared with in-person visits, telemedicine visits were associated with less prescribing and ordering, modestly higher rates of in-person visits, and slightly more ED visits. The findings suggest that primary health care delivery that uses telemedicine [...]
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 [...]
JAMA Network Open: Primary Care Practice Telehealth Use and Low-Value Care Services In this cohort study of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who received care from primary care practices in Michigan, some low-value care services (i.e., cervical cancer screening among women older than 65 years and low-value thyroid testing) were lower among practices with high telehealth [...]
Journal of Medical Internet Research: Statistical Analysis of Telehealth Use and Pre- and Postpandemic Insurance Coverage in Selected Health Care Specialties This study analyzed telehealth use across specialties in Arkansas before and after the pandemic (2017-2022) using data from electronic medical records from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center. The study [...]
Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI): 2024 State of Digital Health Purchasing PHTI, in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago, released a survey showing that spending on digital health increased rapidly over the past two years. Purchasers—including health plans, employers, and health systems, plan to continue to grow their spending on digital health [...]