Telehealth
In this episode, Lee Schwamm, MD, who is a neurologist and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Telehealth and American Heart Association volunteer, describes the new era in telehealth, focusing on the boom in virtual care as well…
As hospital emergency rooms are dealing with staffing shortages, a spokesperson for Providence Centralia (Wa.) Hospital told The Chronicle March 8 that 20 to 25 percent of patients coming into their emergency room could receive telehealth care.
Drugs used to lose weight quickly have gained attention across social media and celebrity circles over the last year, fueling a rise in digital health startups that offer online prescriptions for drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, which are meant…
National telehealth utilization grew by 3.8 percent in December claiming 5.5 percent of medical claim lines compared to 5.3 percent in November, according to Fair Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
Virtual care improved treatment for heart failure patients at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham, according to a March 6 study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
WeightWatchers has agreed to purchase telehealth company Sequence, which digitally prescribes weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, in a $132 million deal.
The American Telemedicine Association is naming CVS Health Chief Medical Officer Sree Chaguturu, MD, as chair-elect of the board of directors.
Terren Peizer, CEO of telehealth company Ontrak, has been indicted for insider trading to avoid millions of dollars in losses, according to a March 1 Justice Department news release.
The "doctor-does-it-all" approach doesn't work for in-person healthcare and isn't effective for telemedicine either, the American Medical Association says.
A new study from virtual health company KeyCare revealed that 68 percent of patients traveling who needed minor but urgent medical care consulted their regular clinicians via telehealth.