Telehealth

Healthcare organizations, along with companies like Amazon, have written letters to Congress and the White House, urging them to ensure continued access to remote prescribing of controlled substances.

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health is expanding its virtual care capabilities across its hospitals.

Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care said the health system will start using technology more "aggressively," The Gazette reported Sept. 7. 

Female physicians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physicians in nonrural areas provide the highest number of telehealth visits, a recent Weill Cornell Medicine study found.

Kaiser Permanente Ventures participated in a $65 million financing round for a virtual care startup focused on home-based patients.

With the news that UnitedHealth Group is ending its telehealth offerings, Amwell and Teladoc have seen their stocks plummet more than 50% in the past year, Walmart is shuttering all 51 health centers and its virtual care services and Optum…

The issue of ED boarding – holding admitted patients in the ED – has reached “public health emergency” levels according to the American College of Emergency Physicians. The crisis is especially acute for patients experiencing a mental health emergency who…

Nationally, telehealth claim lines saw a slight decline, dropping from 4.86% of all medical claim lines in April to 4.82% in May, representing a 0.8% decrease, FAIR Health's monthly telehealth regional tracker found. 

It is anticipated that Congress will extend telehealth access rules for Medicare patients, though likely not until after the election. This delay could have significant repercussions, Politico reported Aug. 9.

While telehealth use has largely leveled off since the COVID-19 pandemic, one group of patients at Kaiser Permanente and UCSF Health has increasingly taken advantage of the technology.