Telehealth
U.S. patients are being blindsided by telehealth costs and many are facing facility fees even though they haven't stepped foot in a hospital or physician's office, The Washington Post reported April 1.
As the DEA continues to propose stricter regulations on telehealth-based opioid prescribing, telehealth companies say they are worried that the crackdown won't allow them to prescribe life-saving medications that can help prevent opioid overdoses, The Wall Street Journal reported April…
National telehealth utilization increased by 7.3 percent in January 2023, compared to 3.8 percent in December, according to Fair Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough warned lawmakers that a move to cap the agency's budget at fiscal 2022 levels could hurt the agency's telehealth and cybersecurity programs, Fedscoop reported March 29.
Medicare beneficiaries who utilized telehealth tools for the treatment of opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic saw a 33 percent lower risk of a fatal drug overdose, according to a March 29 study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Leah Sigler, President of TheTeleDentists, joins the podcast to tell us about her background, challenges surrounding access to oral healthcare, leveraging technology to bridge gaps in access & patient education, what the most effective healthcare leaders need to be successful…
National telehealth utilization declined by 79 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to Fair Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital is launching a new telehealth program that will allow Intermountain clinicians to remotely advise clinicians in neonatal intensive care units at four hospitals in Utah and one in Montana, local news outlet ABC4…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing the "Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023," a bill that, if enacted, would allow people with health savings accounts and high-deductible health plans to permanently access telehealth.
In today's episode, we are joined by Matt Ream, Executive Vice President, at BlueSpark and Ruth Phillips, Vice President of Medical Affairs, at BlueSpark, to discuss how continuous vital sign monitoring leads to better and more effective patient care. Tune…