Study: Telehealth use linked to lower cancer care costs
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 20, 2023
A study published in JAMA Network Open found that oncology care via telehealth was associated with time, travel and cost savings among cancer patients.
Study: Pandemic telehealth use linked to lower opioid overdose risk
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Receiving opioid use disorder-related telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with lower odds of overdose and better retention using medications like buprenorphine, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
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Study: Low health literacy, poorer neighborhoods associated with audio-only telehealth use
Mobi Health News
JULY 28, 2022
A study published in JAMA Network Open found low health literacy and a higher area deprivation index were associated with more audio-only telehealth visits.
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Study: Telehealth follow-up linked to return emergency department visits
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 28, 2022
According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, telehealth follow-up was associated with 28.3 more repeat ED visits per 1,000 patients compared with in-person care.
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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns
Health Populi
AUGUST 25, 2020
In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.
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Study reveals inequalities in telehealth usage across demographic groups
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Researchers from Kantar Health suggest that as telehealth services continue to be used, inequalities in access and usage should be monitored to find ways to close healthcare gaps.
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Study: VA telehealth expansion lagged in rural areas during COVID-19
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2023
A study in JAMA Network Open tracking telemedicine visits pre- and post-pandemic across the VA reveals increasing inequities between rural and urban communities.
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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
By March 2020, telehealth channels were replacing visits to doctors and emergency departments as shown in the first chart from the CDC’s report on the early pandemic period. Welcome to Telehealth Awareness Week , a campaign mounted by the ATA to remind us that #TelehealthIsHealth. 34% used telehealth for preventive care.
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Study: Audio-only telehealth still common at FQHCs in California
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2023
According to a study published in JAMA, audio-only visits made up one in five primary care visits and two in five behavioral health visits among patients at federally qualified health centers in August 2022.
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Telehealth Update from J.D. Power, Amwell, Cigna, GoodRx, and a Trio of Smart Doctors
Health Populi
OCTOBER 5, 2020
In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. In the study, J.D.
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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare
Health Populi
JULY 23, 2020
the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.
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Study: Telehealth for opioid use disorder linked to lower risk of fatal overdose
Mobi Health News
MARCH 30, 2023
Medicare beneficiaries who received telehealth services for opioid use disorder during the pandemic had a 33% lower risk of fatal overdose.
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Survey: Consumers prefer telehealth over in-person visits for routine, mental healthcare
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Power study indicates telehealth is the preferred method among consumers for receiving certain types of medical care.
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Study: Telehealth for opioid use disorder may be comparable to in-person care
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 30, 2023
The research, published in JAMA Network Open, found no difference in visit frequency, initiation of medication use or adverse outcomes between patients who were treated by clinicians with either high or low levels of telehealth use.
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Study: Telehealth could increase physicians' after-hours work
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 19, 2022
Researchers found physicians who provided more care through telemedicine also increased their time spent on after-hours EHR-based clinical and administrative work.
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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
Health Populi
MAY 21, 2020
Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. That anxiety comes from the fact that most folks in this study believed it likely there would be a resurgence of COVID-19 in the fall or winter. Why it’s telehealth, of course, which has experienced hockey-stick growth in the U.S.
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Study: Video telehealth, in-person diagnoses agree in 87% of cases
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Specialty care was significantly more likely to result in concordant diagnoses between telehealth and in-person appointments, compared with primary care.
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Telehealth can effectively manage COVID-19 at home, study finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 23, 2022
A University of Iowa study published this month 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. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. But the potential for RPM goes beyond acute conditions. ON THE RECORD.
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Study: Telemental healthcare associated with increased outpatient contact, hospitalization follow-ups
Mobi Health News
JULY 1, 2022
The study found that greater use of telehealth among patients with severe mental illness did not affect medication adherence.
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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP
Health Populi
MAY 10, 2022
“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. The study polled U.S. By gender, more older women are interested in using telehealth compared with men.
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Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. One direct quote from a physician illustrates the upside of telehealth and trust: “Building trust requires a human connection and genuine empathy/compassion.
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Telehealth helps stop suicidal ideation for many patients, study finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Recently, the Journal of Medical Internet Research published some significant data highlighting the efficacy of psychiatric care delivered through telehealth: Those in the treatment group were 4.3 We spoke with Winsberg to get an in-depth look at this study and what the results mean for the future of telehealth and mental healthcare.
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Telehealth may not engender strong consumer loyalty, study shows
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 25, 2021
A new analysis suggests that downstream capture from telehealth as a "digital front door" does not suggest strong consumer loyalty. She found that, consistent with national trends, about 13% of individuals accessed telehealth within the system's market at least once in 2020. " THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.
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Physicians Practicing in the Age of COVID-19: Lower Incomes, More Telehealth
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2020
This study is part one of three conducted by the Foundation this year, subtitled the “COVID-19 Impact Edition” of the 2020 Survey of America’s Physicians which the Foundation conducts each year. Merritt Hawkins conducted the study on behalf of the Foundation, shifting the focus to the pandemic.
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Growing Evidence for eConsults – the Asynchronous, Clinician-to-Clinician Platform for Telehealth
Health Populi
JUNE 29, 2020
Telehealth and its various flavors enabled both patients and providers to manage the risk of contracting the virus, especially at a time when little was known about the nature of transmission, treatment and prevention — except for washing hands, covering one’s face, and isolating when showing symptoms. meta-analyses).
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Study: Limiting out-of-state telehealth could disrupt existing patient-provider relationships
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
A recent study found out-of-state telemedicine visits were most common with those who lived near a state border, and were largely for primary and mental healthcare.
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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford
Health Populi
APRIL 18, 2019
Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. Joe’s deploys telehealth in eight states. First, connected care: one in five U.S. Providence St.
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Most primary care telehealth visits don't require in-person follow-up, Epic study shows
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 2, 2023
To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. "We found that patients covered by Medicaid and Medicare had the highest in-person follow-up rates," they said.
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Telehealth may help reduce medicine's carbon footprint
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 8, 2021
A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. WHY IT MATTERS. From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S.
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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2022
Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. The study’s key finding was that for every additional 1% of people living in a county who have access to the Internet, between 2.4
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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.
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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL
Health Populi
MARCH 9, 2022
If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”
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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds
Health Populi
JUNE 27, 2022
The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. Take preventive services across the entire national commercial population in the study. Commercially insured workers in low-income communities also had fewer visits per 1000 members for telehealth in 2020 and 2021.
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COVID-19’s Consumer Health Care Behaviors: Telehealth, Trauma, and Trust, via PwC
Health Populi
APRIL 29, 2020
One healthcare flow consumers and clinicians have adopted in the COVID-19 pandemic is telehealth. The circle chart graphs what occasioned consumers’ visits telehealth visits for the first time in the pandemic. ” The PwC study asks how our health behavior now in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic might persist.
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Physicians in favor of permanent telehealth expansion
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 27, 2021
A study published this month in JMIR Human Factors from Syracuse University researchers found that physicians are in favor of expanding telehealth permanently. "On one hand, from this survey, I believe telehealth can increase access," she said. Patient-care visits conducted via telehealth also rose from 13.1%
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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. hours in September 2021, according to the study. before the pandemic to 8.18
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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds
Health Populi
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.
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Study: Therapists serving Medicaid patients, couples and families less likely to continue teletherapy
Mobi Health News
JUNE 2, 2022
Researchers found therapists with a higher percentage of clients from lower socioeconomic status groups, patients on Medicaid and families were less likely to keep using telehealth after the pandemic.
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Female physicians more likely to adopt telehealth early
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 5, 2022
A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. WHY IT MATTERS. Majority (those adopting March 22, 2020, or later).
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One physician's perspective on why patients prefer telehealth visits
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 16, 2021
Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. I knocked and entered a room to meet a patient for follow up on his MRI study. The world has turned upside down and, ironically, I am one of the providers who utilizes telehealth the most in my large organization.
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The New Employer Wellness Lens Includes Mental Health, Telehealth and Women’s Health
Health Populi
AUGUST 26, 2019
employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future.
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Rapid telehealth rollout was beneficial for nursing homes, but had downsides too
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. A University of Missouri study published this past week found that the turn to virtual care reduced stress for residents and helped increase access to services.
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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)
Health Populi
JUNE 6, 2021
Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.
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Astronauts tap into telehealth to treat a blood clot
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 7, 2020
A new case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine runs through how astronauts employed telemedicine to get the right medications to a patient in space.
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