University of Houston: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Telemedicine Usage Persist During Pandemic According to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the rapid implementation of telemedicine didn’t bridge the gap in racial and ethnic health disparities as much as people had hoped. Researchers found that African Americans were 35 percent and Hispanics were 51 percent [...]
Managed Healthcare Executive: More Evidence of Mental Health Services Shifting to Telehealth According to a Health Affairs study, people with conditions such as schizophrenia did not make the switch to telehealth as readily as people with anxiety and some other disorders. The average number of monthly encounters, in-person and via telehealth, for bipolar disorders fell by 10.6 [...]
PR Newswire: For Third Straight Month, Telehealth Utilization Increased Nationally in January 2022 According to FAIR Health’s Monthly Regional Tracker, national telehealth utilization grew in January 2022. Telehealth utilization also increased in every US census region, with the greatest increase (17.5 percent) in the West. In January 2022, social work was the leading telehealth specialty nationally [...]
Healthcare IT News: Telehealth Can Effectively Manage COVID-19 At Home, Study Finds A University of Iowa study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found that an at-home telemonitoring program was an effective and sustainable way to manage COVID-19 for patients. Most patients did well with the program, with observed rates of hospitalization and mortality lower compared to [...]
Mobi Health News: Report: About a quarter of Americans used telehealth during COVID-19 According to Trilliant Health’s 2022 Telehealth Trends report, 25.6 percent of Americans accessed care using any type of telehealth from March 2020 through November 2021. Nearly 80 percent of users had between one and four visits, with 45.7 percent accessing only one telehealth [...]
Patient Engagement HIT: Using Telehealth, Virtual Care for an Enhanced Consumer Experience According to a recent report from McKinsey, telehealth utilization has dropped off since its peak highs after the initial onset of the pandemic. However, consumer access is still 38 times higher than it was before COVID-19. Convenient care, coupled with the potential for lower out-of-pocket [...]