38% of Consumers Prefer Getting Behavioral Health Care Virtually Over In-person

Telehealth has become the new normal for consumers seeking health care. Last year, 80% of consumers said they had used telehealth to access care.
Like Jimmy Carter, more people want care at home. It takes a lot of coordination.

More Americans are opting for the home instead of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities. Lissy Hu of WellSky talks about the need to ensure patients get what they need.
Why advances in telehealth are an impactful and growing necessity

Use data to track how patients want to interact and how insurers will cover costs as ‘hybrid’ becomes the new normal.
Meeting consumers’ expectations: How digital health technology can help transform care

Clinicians and patients have differing opinions on and expectations of telehealth and other forms of virtual care. Digital health technology product leaders play a critical role in aligning these opinions and expectations so that they can help deliver what healthcare consumers want without adding to clinicians’ burdens.
From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond

Today, worldwide digital interconnectivity is growing, enabling telehealth to advance health equity, bring access to care for underserved regions and meet the urgent, primary and behavioral healthcare needs of an exploding global population.
Hippo Virtual Care Making A Difference to Wound Care at Michigan Medicine

Hippo Virtual Care Making A Difference to Wound Care at Michigan Medicine At Hippo, we’re always looking to highlight innovative people in the healthcare community. We recently sat down with Dr. Alton R. Johnson, Jr. to talk about his role as a current Fellowship Innovator in the 2023 “Research | Innovation | Scholarship | Education” […]
Virtual care can address rising costs of worker GI health

New data makes it clear that one of the priority areas of emphasis for 2024 program design must be the digestive health of their teams.
Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

University Hospitals’ chatbot now helps manage capacity in EDs and urgent care centers while improving care for patients with chronic conditions.
To improve employees’ health in 2023, employers must take a hard look at where and how employees receive care

Morgan Health CEO Dan Mendelson and partner Cheryl Pegus advocate for embracing value based care and using virtual tools available as a complement.
American Hospital Association Urges DEA to Issue Special Registration for Telemedicine Controlled Substances

The American Hospital Association (AHA), on behalf of its nearly 5,000 member hospitals and health systems, sent a letter urging the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to take immediate action to allow telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances before the Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers expire. The letter exhorts the DEA to publish the proposed rule for a special telemedicine registration, something the DEA has said it would do since 2009 (yes, 13 years ago; not a typo).