Digital Health

Sara Horst, MD, MPH, FACG, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discussed the recent digital health developments most beneficial to both patients and providers, as well as considerations around using these tools wisely.

Standardized reporting of patient adherence and engagement among digital health interventions for depression offers more effective comparisons between digital health tools and populations.

Sara Horst MD, MPH, FACG, discussed how she helps make the electronic medical record more accessible and easier for clinicians to use within her roles as ambulatory director of VUMC Telehealth and Specialty Pharmacy and associate vice chair of Digital Health Operations of the Department of Medicine.

Significant differences in video telehealth use were observed in rural and urban populations, especially among American Indian/Alaska Native veterans, a new study has found.

Pfizer considers cost-cutting as demand for COVID-19 products lag; Amazon Clinic aims to provide virtual care for common health concerns; Black patients may find new Alzheimer drugs less effective

Tennessee Oncology collaborated with Smirta to develop the platform.

Barriers to acceptance included privacy concerns and fears about the possibility of misinterpretation of messages.

Highly resourced accountable care organizations (ACOs) were more likely to offer digital health services.

The shrinking gap was mainly driven by mobile device use.

Researchers at Rock Health compared digital health funding, deal size, and other metrics in the first half of 2023 with previous years.

This small study showed that individuals who used an app designed specifically for smokers ambivalent about quitting used the app more often and exhibited greater changes in behavior compared with those using a similar nontailored app.

Explanatory studies, conducted under tightly controlled circumstances, could hinder the integration of technology in clinical settings by underreporting key study characteristics.

Patients often relapse after discharge from acute care because of long waits for outpatient treatment, lack of specialized therapists, out-of-pocket costs, and inadequate social support.

Patients who participated in a COVID-19 patient home monitoring program were satisfied with their care and stated that their participation made them less likely to seek care in the emergency department.

Technical, economic, and political factors led to notable disparities between high-income and low-and middle-income countries, an international assessment shows.

A direct-to-consumer telemedicine service resulted in lower per-episode unit costs for care within 7 days and only marginally increased the use of services overall.

This study describes financial issues that influenced telemedicine provision and use for patients with chronic conditions and their providers during COVID-19.

This counterfactual simulation study on a nationally representative sample of the working population with musculoskeletal conditions estimated the value of patient-initiated virtual physical therapy.

Although older patients generally accept electronic visits (e-visits) conducted via asynchronous messages, nearly two-thirds said they prefer visit types with synchronous dialogue.

Quality of life (QOL) for people living with autoimmune diseases benefits from an integrated approach that considers individual immune system sensitivities and patients’ life circumstances, a new study shows.

Use of a mobile app was not associated with better cardiac outcomes or completing a cardiac rehabilitation program.

Jeff Hunnicutt, CEO of Highlands Oncology Group, discusses the difference between business intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI), including process implementation and data compilation.

Telehealth provides more flexibility for patients with gastrointestinal issues to better fit their care into their lives and around symptoms they may be experiencing, said Sam Holliday, co-founder and CEO of Oshi Health.

All technology-based interventions substantially improved mental health, but those partially supported by health care providers were shown to be most effective.

The Dario Diabetes Solution app was developed to help better manage type 2 diabetes.

This longitudinal analysis of claims data examined changes in telehealth and in-person delivery of services in Louisiana.

Steven Heatherly of Baptist Health in Kentucky talks about the success of heart clinics and promising results from remote patient monitoring.

Older age and low literacy were not barriers to self-monitoring and reporting disease activity.

A survey of health care leaders presented during the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition found most weren’t very satisfied with the technology they are offering patients.

Patients who had breast reconstruction or gynecologic surgical resection were equally satisfied with in-person and virtual postsurgical follow-up.