Aged care nursing in the digital future
Digital technology can better assist nurses to manage end of life care in residential aged care facilities but ensuring its impact requires better tools, training, and ongoing support, a new study has found.
How digital health is powering population health strategies
Healthcare leaders discuss how digital health technologies are boosting population health efforts by enhancing access and outcomes, helping them achieve value-based care goals.
Modernizing acute care: the economic impact of bedside telehealth
Research reveals three main benefits for healthcare organizations offering inpatient virtual care programs.
VA plans to end telehealth copays and fund virtual care access in rural areas
The agency is proposing telehealth access grants to establish fixed, secure environments outfitted with reliable internet and secure video that connect veterans hobbled by the digital divide to health services.
Does more virtual care mean more low-value care? Study suggests no
Before 2024 ends, Congress will decide whether to keep or change rules about telehealth, or let them expire. And even though the decision will focus on Medicare’s payment for virtual patient care, it will likely impact telehealth access for people with other kinds of health insurance too.
Digital health has evolved rapidly, but medical insurance hasn’t kept up
The benefits of connected care and remote patient monitoring have catapulted digital health into mainstream medical offerings, but issues of reimbursement and insurance technicalities are hindering adoption.
Why rural telehealth alone can’t fix care access problems
Without fixing workforce shortages and social determinants issues, rural telehealth’s impact on care access will be limited.
Easing Patient Fears of Radiation Treatment, Via Virtual Reality
For a patient facing radiation therapy for cancer, the process is filled with unknowns. They might wonder about the radiation itself—will it burn? Then there’s the face mask for head and neck cancer patients—will it be tolerable? And those radiation placement tattoos— will they hurt? The uncertainty can be overwhelming for someone already dealing with fear, anxiety, or anger related to their diagnosis and other treatments.
Health care consumers face affordability crisis, seeking tech solutions
Nearly 3 in 10 consumers skip, delay or stop care because they can’t afford it.
Affordability, GenAI top-of-mind for healthcare consumers
GenAI holds promise for ameliorating patient navigation and affordability issues that get in the way of patient care access, healthcare consumers say.