telehealth

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry was slowly embracing telehealth as a new modality to deliver patient care. At the same time, technologies like Apple FaceTime and WhatsApp were becoming mainstream for personal video calls. THE PROBLEM Horizon Health Alliance, based in Buffalo, New York, was watching the telehealth industry expand to meet

Telehealth-delivered parenting interventions lead to significant and maintained improvements for young children with developmental disorders (DD) and their caregivers, according to a study published online Jan. 9 in JAMA Pediatrics. Daniel M. Bagner, Ph.D., from Florida International University in Miami, and colleagues evaluated the efficacy of a telehealth parenting intervention for behavior problems in young

[UPDATED on Jan. 11] Controlled substances became a little less controlled during the pandemic. That benefited both patients (for their health) and telehealth startups (to make money). Some potentially addictive medications — like buprenorphine and Adderall — are now far more available online to patients because of regulatory changes. Given the scarcity of qualified doctors

Amanda Shelley was sitting in her dentist’s waiting room when she received a call from the police. A local teenage girl had been sexually assaulted and needed an exam. Shelley, a nurse in rural Eagle County, Colorado, went to her car and called a telehealth company to arrange an appointment with a sexual assault nurse