Telehealth News and Perspective

• ESC-HF Voice-Analysis App Promising as Acute-HF Early Warning System It could potentially help guide heart failure therapy to avert acute decompensations, researchers say. 'But of course, we have to show that now in larger and randomized clinical studies.'
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2022
• The Latest in Movement Disorder Research   This year's AAN meeting highlighted differences in outcomes based on patients' backgrounds.
  Medscape Neurology, May 19, 2022
• Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder   A 22-year-old woman with a history of major depression presents at the emergency department with new-onset suicidal ideation after the breakup of a relationship. Her current medications are evaluated and considerations for her follow-up care and treatment options are discussed.
  Medscape, May 17, 2022
• Disadvantaged Medicare Patients Benefited Most From COVID Telehealth Waiver Expanding Medicare coverage of telemedicine during the COVID pandemic led to an increase in utilization, particularly among people living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, a new analysis shows.
  Reuters Health Information, May 13, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• ACOG 2022 COVID Fallout: 'Alarming' Dip in Routine Vax for Pregnant Women The percentage of low-income pregnant mothers who received influenza and Tdap vaccinations fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Black and Hispanic patients, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Telemedicine Increases Black Patients' Primary Care Access: Study A recently released Penn Medicine study finds the appointment completion gap between Black and non-Black patients narrowed considerably after telehealth visits became widely available.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Burnout: Is Leaving Your Current Job the Answer? Burnout is real, but if you have your priorities set and clear, it is easy to negotiate.
  Medscape Blogs, May 06, 2022
• Docs Find New and Better Ways to Cut EHR Input Time Physicians have been trying all types of methods to cut EHR input time and chart documentation. Here are some of their answers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• COVID Drove Telehealth Forward in High Gear: Now What? Experts speaking at the American Telemedicine Association conference focused on how investment in telehealth spiked during the pandemic and what to expect in the near future.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Q&A With Hubert (Hugh) Greenway, MD Anyone who practices Mohs micrographic surgery is likely to know the name Hugh Greenway, MD, the longtime head of Mohs and dermatologic surgery at Scripps Clinic in San Diego.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Advancing Digital Health Past Pandemic-Driven Telemedicine A panel discussion at a recent American Telemedicine Association conference zeroed in on the need to optimize digital health tools to meet consumer needs.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• HRS 2022 Apple Watch ECG App, Still Experimental, Reveals Low LVEF It's seen as a low-cost way to remotely track patients at increased risk for ventricular dysfunction with 12-lead-ECG accuracy. 'We can imagine them getting an ECG every day,' said one researcher.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022
• Telemedicine Can Make Cancer Care Inequities Worse Cancer patients resorted to telemedicine appointments during the pandemic; however, the approach can add more pressure for the financially distressed, according to an analysis of national data.
  First Look, April 28, 2022
• AAGP 2022 Virtual Reality an 'Exciting Opportunity' for Geriatric Psychiatry Virtual reality to deliver immersive and engaging interventions to seniors with depression, loneliness, and other psychiatric disorders is "an exciting opportunity" for the field, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2022
• Smartphone Diagnosis in Infant Seizures: Highly Effective?   Drs Andrew Wilner and Chethan Rao discuss the potential use for smartphone video as an important adjunct in the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms.
  Medscape Neurology, April 27, 2022
• How Gender-Affirming Care Is Provided to Adolescents in the US In a sample of trans adults (n = 27,715), 10% started to realize they were transgender at age 5 or younger, 16% between ages 6 and 10, 28% between 11 and 15, 29% between 16 and 20, and 18% at age 21 or older.
  Medscape Pediatrics, April 25, 2022
• PAS 2022 Most Pandemic Peds Visits Managed With Telemedicine Roughly two-thirds of appointments for acute care concerns that were managed through telemedicine did not demand additional follow-up, researchers found.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2022
• AAD 2022 PLA Test Brings Nuance to the Diagnosis of Early-Stage Melanoma Prospective randomized clinical trials are needed "to examine the role of genetic expression profiling in staging and managing patients," according to Caroline Kim, MD.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2022
• Doctors Prescribing Abortion Pills Across State Lines Stymied States are cracking down on telemedicine abortions, blunting the efforts of out-of-state doctors to provide medication abortions.
  Kaiser Health News, April 06, 2022