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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered that several demographics, mostly adults, maintained substantial levels of involvement in telehealth after evaluating telehealth use statistics from 2021. Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, hospitalizations, fatalities, and growing infections made it difficult for patients and health providers to meet face-to-face. Healthcare stakeholders embraced telehealth as …

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Samsung has partnered with leading virtual primary care provider HealthTap to help provide virtual healthcare directly to Samsung Smart TVs in the U.S. HealthTap typically focuses its efforts on offering easily accessible and affordable healthcare to millions of Americans through its mobile and desktop applications. The program provides its users with access to their own …

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Telehealth visits are anticipated to continue playing a significant role in endocrine care after experiencing a dramatic rise during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the telehealth use increase, the Endocrine Society developed a policy perspective with five characteristics of care to help doctors choose whether using telehealth is acceptable in an effort to improve …

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A recent study published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment has found evidence to support video observation as a method of methadone take-home dosing. Methadone is used to treat individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). According to the study, OUD remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. National data …

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A study recently published by athenahealth has found that telehealth is addressing shortcomings in delivering healthcare after evolving from COVID-19 pandemic visit replacement methods. By using the data of 2,000 U.S. adults between June and July, 2022, from a Dynata survey and athenahealth’s EHR data from January 1, 2019, to April 30, 2022, the researchers …

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The FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker has found that telehealth use varies per region in the United States’s southeast. The Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, which will be offered as a free service starting in May 2020, leverages FAIR Health data to track the development of telehealth over time. A user of the tracker   …

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