Telehealth

The use of telehealth for behavioral health services increased more so than for any other type of healthcare during the pandemic.

Published yesterday in PLoS ONE, the data suggests an alternative to the six-minute walk test often conducted in clinics to measure functional capacity.

Goodwill NYNJ used a $436,000 grant from the FCC to buy tablets, laptops and hotspots to enable caregivers to deliver care to low-income patients in the two states.

With virtual care, the rural Texas provider organization is cutting costs and saving patients from having to take days off of work to see a doctor.

Virtual care and digital health tools can play a pivotal role – in both urban and rural areas – when natural disasters strike. 

The organization says seniors, during the pandemic, increasingly relied on telehealth to safely access their care.

The provider organization used funds granted from the FCC to buy specialized virtual care units that it placed in schools to test and treat kids.

As CMS signals longer-term changes in acute RPM reimbursement and Amazon teams with major providers to push for new policies, clinical and IT leaders should start planning ahead, says one expert. "Everyone has to be thinking about this."

Its telehealth and remote patient monitoring efforts, expanded to help with COVID-19 treatment, are improving care and the patient experience – and helping compliance with a new CMS program.

The report estimates that by 2026, the European telehealth market will bring in $17.35bn in revenue.