Telehealth

Hims & Hers disclosed a data security incident affecting a limited number of individuals after unauthorized access to its customer service platform earlier this year. The company said it discovered suspicious activity Feb. 5 involving a third-party customer service system…

Jeffrey Cohen, MD, has spent four decades in healthcare. For much of that time, describing patients as consumers was heresy. Not anymore. “If somebody had talked about consumerism in healthcare when I was starting out and when I was training,…

The American Telemedicine Association and Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore have launched a three-year initiative to address barriers to interstate telehealth access. The effort, known as the Licensure Innovation for Telehealth Transformation initiative, aims to educate policymakers and the public…

Some health systems are adopting teledermatology to expand patient access and boost efficiencies, the American Journal of Managed Care reported. As dermatologists face declining reimbursement, they will have to look into alternatives to maintain revenue, including video appointments and asynchronous…

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health tracks dozens of hypertension patients each month through remote patient monitoring. Here are five things to know about the program: 1. The health system launched the initiative in 2024, checking the patients’ blood pressure from…

Sleep data from COPD patients with wearable devices may help predict how likely they are to stay engaged with pulmonary rehabilitation, according to researchers at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, evaluated whether…

Cleveland Clinic is expanding its hospital-at-home model to Northeast Ohio, offering some patients the option to receive acute care at home instead of a traditional inpatient stay. The health system’s Hospital Care at Home program is launching on Cleveland’s west…

Two health systems have joined several companies in urging the state of Michigan to continue its participation in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health and Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health signed on to a March 18 letter…

At-home care logistics company MedArrive has acquired assets from now-defunct hospital-at-home company Inbound Health. MedArrive bought Inbound Health’s AI-backed patient-navigation capabilities to identify patients who are ready to transition from the hospital to the home, adding to its platform for…

Telehealth use is associated with higher adherence to endocrine therapy among women with breast cancer, according to a study in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. Researchers from Athens, Ga.-based University of Georgia analyzed claims data from the Merative MarketScan database,…