Hospitals and health systems have increasingly turned to telemedicine to increase access to care and allocate resources more effectively, according to an article in Health Affairs. The article details ...

Digital access and care continuity correlated strongly with telemedicine uptake, including patient portal use (OR 1.44) and returning-visit status, while new-patient encounters were markedly less ...

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This change is yet another signal that the country is working to move past the pandemic, which falls in line with recent moves by the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Defining telemedicine-related education and best practices and addressing health disparities are ...

Telemedicine, or telehealth, is medical care that you can receive digitally without seeing a doctor in person. Telehealth services can take place through live video conferencing, remote patient ...

Use of direct-to-consumer telemedicine—on-demand virtual care for minor medical issues—is growing rapidly. Although it may yield immediate savings by diverting health care from higher-cost settings, ...

Telemedicine visits are five times less costly than in-person appointments for the most common conditions able to be treated ...

In Cal Newport's book A World Without Email, he tells a story of when the offices of IBM headquarters in New York decided to switch their previous office communications system to email. The previous ...

We know that telemedicine is not one-size-fits-all, particularly for mental and behavioral health, where thoughtful triage, follow-up and continuity of care remain important, s ...

Marco Laverdière serves as the executive director and secretary of the Ordre des optométristes du Québec in addition to his academic activities at Université de Sherbrooke and Université de Montréal.