Telehealth

Also known as telemedicine, this area of care helps connect doctors and patients remotely, without requiring in-person visits. This virtual care strategy is beneficial for managing chronic conditions, delivering lab test or diagnostic imaging results, post-surgical follow-ups, assessing skin conditions, online counseling and many other healthcare services. It also can improve care, care access and outcomes for patients.

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Telehealth improves communication among children with autism, parents

A pilot study at Michigan State University in East Lansing used an online program to help parents of children with autism improve their child’s social communication.

Study: Telehealth rates of desired and actual use differ widely in U.S.

A report by telehealth provider Avizia and Modern Healthcare Custom Media, the research division of Modern Healthcare, found there is a wide gap between how healthcare providers currently use telehealth versus how they want to use the technology.

Senate bill aims to improve rural care through telehealth

New legislation introduced by Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, would direct HHS to analyze a model of using telehealth to improve care in rural areas

Cleveland Clinic providers available to CVS MinuteClinic patients through telehealth

A new partnership will connect Cleveland Clinic providers with CVS MinuteClinic customers in Ohio for online and mobile doctor visits through the American Well telehealth platform.

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Longer term research required for telehealth

In contrast to claims that telehealth can solve numerous healthcare problems, including access to care, a paper published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research says research on the practice is overly positive because it is often based on short-term projects.

AmericanWell offers first telehealth SDK

Telehealth provider American Well introduced the first-ever mobile Telehealth Software Development Kit (SDK) which allows any user to add online doctor visits into their native mobile apps.

ATA forum to help Congress with telehealth policy

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has announced plans to hold its first Telehealth Capitol Connection Forum, a bi-monthly briefing series that aims to meet the growing interest in using telemedicine to improve healthcare delivery.

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PwC: Consumers ready for telehealth, self-diagnosis; doctors not so much

Most consumers are ready for nontraditional healthcare delivery, according to research from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute. 

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