Telemedicine is healthcare’s new frontier, a means of facilitating the distribution of human resources and professional competences. It can speed up diagnosis and therapeutic care delivery and allow ...

Many rural communities struggle to access health care because there is no nearby clinician, according to Mehrotra, who has been researching issues surrounding telemedicine for about a decade. “People ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health specialists started using telemedicine much more frequently. Despite many benefits, a new study finds that virtual visits did not make it easier for ...

Evidence suggests that oncology patients are satisfied with and sometimes prefer telemedicine compared with in-person visits; however, data are scarce on when telemedicine is appropriate for specific ...

A new report on telemental health in Health Affairs shows that, among rural Medicare beneficiaries, use of telemedicine for mental health is growing quickly but inconsistently across the population.

As providers are becoming more comfortable with delivering care via telemedicine technologies, many of them are looking to explore services other than low acuity triage consults. One area of patient ...

Previous telemedicine processes are now helping this health system implement virtual nursing, says this nurse leader. While virtual nursing programs are new to several health systems, the concept of ...

Telemedicine isn’t necessarily a new offering, but the industry’s focus on this service has been renewed, suggested Skip Fleshman, a partner at Asset Management Ventures focused on digital health ...

You need medical care, but the earliest available appointment isn’t for weeks. Even if you could wait, you’d still have to take time off work, find childcare and somehow get to a clinic that’s an hour ...

Greater telemedicine uptake among mental health specialists is associated with only small increases in the share of visits to patients in rural, low-access-to-c ...