When there was greater use of telehealth during pandemic, there were more clinician encounters: study
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Kristen Fischer
May 13, 2024
High telehealth use among Medicare beneficiaries during the pandemic was linked to more clinician encounters and ambulatory care–sensitive hospitalizations, according to a study published Monday in JAMA...
Telehealth inequities may arise for older adults with vision problems, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 05, 2024
Older adults in the United States with vision impairments were less likely to have access to technology such as tablets and mobile phones compared to those without difficulty seeing, according to a new...
4 in 10 adults opt for telehealth, older adults less likely to use video visits, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 27, 2024
A new study finds that 43% of people opted for telemedicine (also known as telehealth) in 2022, even when in-person visits were available. Of them, 70% chose video visits and 30% had audio-only, or phone,...
Only 7.5 percent of older adults buy into online healthcare, poll finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 17, 2024
Younger folks may like online healthcare services, but older adults aren’t as enthusiastic about the offering. Only 7.5% of people between the ages of 50 and 80 have used a direct-to-consumer healthcare...
Educating neurologists, using telehealth improves outcomes in Parkinson’s
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 14, 2023
A new study looks at palliative care for people living with Parkinson’s disease and related disorders and found that educating neurologists and using telehealth is feasible to improve outcomes for people...
Study: Telemedicine remains significant factor in LTC
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Amy Novotney
Oct 10, 2023
While the use of telemedicine visits within long-term care is significantly down from its pandemic high, it remains above historic levels, particularly for speciality services such as psychiatry, a new...
Telemedicine visits in nursing communities soared and then fell during pandemic, report finds
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 21, 2023
When the pandemic rolled out across the world in early 2020, a lot of nursing communities turned to telemedicine. A new report shares just how much those communities leaned on telehealth services at the...
Our brave new world
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Jean Wendland Porter
Feb 07, 2023
The Public Health Emergency, initiated in 2020 and continuing to the present, established a new and complex means of getting healthcare. Because many were worried about social distancing and leaving...
Study: Telemedicine visits effective for patients mulling surgery
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John Roszkowski
Jan 23, 2023
A new study by Vanderbilt University researchers suggests that use of telemedicine (also known as telehealth) may be just as effective for shared decision-making and communications between patients and...
Nursing facilities – A medical crisis in need of a prescription
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David Chess, MD
Seema Verma
Oct 19, 2022
Nursing facilities have evolved from rest homes to medical facilities over the last 20 years. Patients are sicker, older, have more medical comorbidities and are frailer. They require more assistance with...