By Mark Melchionna
July 10, 2023 – Following a rise in the prior month, the FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker reported that telehealth use decreased across the board, nationally and in all four United States…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 05, 2023 – A new study found that although adults with depression benefitted from virtual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this result was independent of specific program components such as activity scheduling, functional…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 30, 2023 – Among those with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), a blood pressure (BP) home monitoring resource combined with the use of medication for BP titration helped with keeping patients out…
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Background: Digital therapeutic care (DTC) programs are unsupervised app-based treatments that provide video exercises and educational material to patients with nonspecific low back pain during episodes of pain and functional disability. German statutory health…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 29, 2023 – Amid the ongoing concerns surrounding virtual prescribing allowances for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications, a new study found that health systems provide prescriptions for this condition and anxiety at…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 28, 2023 – Despite some risks, a group of healthcare researchers and leaders proposed in a Health Affairs article that telehealth should play a role in determining network adequacy as it could…
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Background: Most smokers are ambivalent about quitting—they want to quit someday, but not now. Interventions are needed that can engage ambivalent smokers, build their motivation for quitting, and support future quit attempts. Mobile health…
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Background: Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid increase in the number of wearable sleep trackers and mobile apps in the consumer market. Consumer sleep tracking technologies allow users to track…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 28, 2023 – Through the expansion of its partnership with Third Eye Health, LTC ACO aims to provide its members with access to a virtual care network and mobile technology to enhance…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 27, 2023 – A new California Institute of Technology (Caltech) study describes a novel wearable skin sensor that can detect a liver-secreted protein known as the C-reactive protein (CRP), which is often…
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