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The Justice Department has charged 11 individuals in connection with telehealth fraud schemes that resulted in more than $2 billion in false claims.
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly turning to virtual nursing as a way to combat the nursing workforce shortage. Here are three hospitals and health systems who have expanded their virtual nursing throughout their organizations and across states:
Telehealth has helped transform care for Boston Children's Hospital patients who no longer have to endure the stress of traveling for every appointment. Just ask 5-year-old Weston Mahady.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center checks in on high-risk chronic disease patients with telehealth calls from a registered nurse to try to keep them out of the hospital.
As big health systems have turned to virtual nursing to help with staffing shortages and reduce administrative tasks for nurses, Kaiser Permanente has taken a slightly different approach. The Oakland, Calif.-based health system has its nurses communicate with patients via…
The pandemic influenced the greatest number of acquisitions, implementations and usage of digital health technologies, but some hospital and health system leaders said they are only moderately satisfied with their telehealth investments, a June 13 report from Panda Health found.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles is partnering with the Los Angeles Unified School District to offer virtual care to CHLA patients 12 or older attending one of the 20 participating Los Angeles schools.
A 24/7 telehealth program established by Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine for its employees was 23 percent less expensive than providing in-person visits for the same conditions.
Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center plans to offer a pancreatic cancer clinical trial to patients across the country via telehealth, WCMH reported June 9.
March telehealth utilization grew by 1.8 percent in March 2023 compared to February 2023, according to Fair Health’s Telehealth Regional Tracker.