Virtual care news, trends and reimbursement updates
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A new study published in the American Journal of Managed Care showed that 77 percent of physicians would like to continue using telehealth to treat patients with opioid use disorder.
The use of telehealth is effective at reducing odds of no-show clinic visits by more than two-thirds for surgical patients.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has opened two new telehealth sites for veterans in Montana.
Penn Medicine's telemedicine-driven fertility program cut treatment wait times almost in half from 97 days to 41 days, according to research published in NEJM Catalyst.
Seventy-percent of physicians in a Yale survey said they would be likely to use telehealth to treat opioid use disorder patients after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Below are five hospitals and health systems that rolled out or announced new telehealth services since Sept. 16.
A pilot program at NYU Langone is using telemedicine to match eligible lung cancer patients with supportive care physicians at Perlmutter Cancer Center.
Samsung has partnered with virtual primary care provider HealthTap to bring primary care capabilities to Samsung Smart TVs.
Telehealth visits have been on the steady decline since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but remain well above pre-pandemic levels, Politico reported Oct. 11.
Bloomington-based Indiana University received a $4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to continue its research on the telehealth app Brain CareNotes, according to Oct. 11 reporting in Inside Indiana Business.