Category: telehealth

Top 15 specialties for telehealth

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.

3 gripes physicians have with telemedicine: survey

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.

Telemedicine grants quicker access to primary care: study

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.

5 stats illustrating a decline in telehealth usage

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.

Telemedicine used to prescribe ivermectin for COVID-19, fueling misinformation

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.

Outpatient telehealth use soared early in the COVID-19 pandemic but has since receded

Telehealth use skyrocketed during the early months of the pandemic. While it has since decreased somewhat from that high, it still represents a much more substantial share of health care than before COVID, this KFF-Epic Research analysis finds.

Reports on Health Insurance and Health Care Costs from the Kaiser Family Foundation 2022-02-10 09:17:48

This updated analysis examines COVID-19’s effect on mortality rates, and estimates that in January 2022, COVID-19 was number two on the list of leading causes of death in the U.S.

9 best virtual care platforms, per KLAS

Epic has the top EMR-centric virtual care platform, and Caregility has the top non-EMR-based virtual care platform, according to KLAS Research’s 2022 “Best in KLAS” rankings, released Feb. 8.

SOC Telemed set to go private with private equity deal

SOC Telemed struck a deal to be acquired by private equity healthcare investment firm Patient Square Capital. SOC Telemed would be private upon completion of the deal. 

Top 5 telehealth diagnoses in November 2021

Across the U.S., mental health conditions were the No. 1 telehealth diagnosis in November 2021, according to new data from Fair Health.