Telehealth

Teladoc launched Chronic Care Complete, a program offered through Teladoc's Health app, to improve the health of patients living with multiple chronic conditions.

Sarah Rush, MD, serves as the chief medical information officer of Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital, and in May 2020, she became what is believed to be the first endowed chair of telehealth in the nation. She spoke to Becker's about…

The share of patients who believe telehealth provides the same or better quality of care compared with in-person visits is increasing, according to the "State of Telemedicine" report released Feb. 16 by health IT and telehealth networking platform Doximity.

Telehealth adoption rates are highest for specialties that manage chronic illness, according to the "State of Telemedicine" report released Feb. 16 by health IT and telehealth networking platform Doximity.

To provide equitable access to healthcare among different patient populations, telehealth technologies must take into account patients' diverse language preferences and different levels of technology proficiency along with workflow efficiency for providers.

Quality of care, patient expectations and physician burnout are among some of the frustrations physicians have with telemedicine, according to a survey conducted by DocASAP, a software company based in Herndon, Va.

Some clinicians spend consecutive hours each day conducting telehealth appointments or holding online meetings, which can lead to a type of burnout called telemedicine fatigue. Here are six steps clinicians can take to combat the condition, according to a report…

Telemedicine helped decrease by half the time between scheduling and appointments for primary care visits conducted before the pandemic, according to a Feb. 3 study published in Telemedicine and e-Health.

Telehealth usage soared during the first six months of the pandemic. Usage has been declining since, but telehealth is still utilized more than before COVID-19, according to research published Feb. 10 in the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker.

Ivermectin, a medicine used to treat parasitic worms, is being prescribed via telemedicine by a minority of physicians to treat COVID-19, despite FDA and CDC warnings against it, NPR reported Feb. 9.