Population Health

But patients with acute conditions who had initial telehealth encounters appeared to require additional follow-up visits.

In one large-scale study, mean engagement with the app lasted only 4.1 days.

Lynn Barr, founder of Caravan Health and chief innovation officer at Signify Health, discusses the specific issues rural providers face and the policy changes needed to support them. 

Yasemin Şahin, CEO and cofounder of Turboard, discusses what's ahead for business intelligence and data analytics for healthcare, and how providers can improve patient quality of life by using the company's tool.

Also, Manulife Hong Kong is commencing an initiative to provide teleconsultation services for seniors amid a new COVID-19 wave.

A team from Boston Children's Hospital and Yonsei University used local weather information to help forecast the possibility of patients missing scheduled appointments.

The White House announced Tuesday that it was calling on electronic health record vendors to incorporate information about antivirals directly into their interfaces.

Scientists from the National Institutes of Health's "All of Us" program found that cost and technology awareness could pose hurdles to broad adoption of digital health devices.

Baha Zeidan, CEO of Azalea Health, says that the company's customers are using its new apps marketplace to optimize their EHRs.

Most respondents, however, point to the digital divide as the biggest obstacle to accessing virtual services.